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 Volume 5, Issue 12 (December 2018), Pages: 112-118

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Testing and comparing the causal relationship between spirituality and social skills with adjustment and burnout mediated by psychological capital in male and female students

 Author(s): Azam Manoochehri, Nasser Behroozi *, Manijeh Shehni Yeylagh, Gholamhosein Maktabi

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Educational Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.12.013

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 Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between spirituality and social skills with adjustment and academic burnout mediated by psychological capital in undergraduate male and female students. The study population was undergraduate male and female students. For this purpose, 254 female students and 253 male students were selected by multi-stage random sampling. Data was gathered by spirituality, social skills, academic adjustment, academic burnout, and psychological capital scales. The results showed in both groups of girls and boys, spirituality and social skills predict psychological capital. Psychological capital also predicts academic burnout and academic adjustment. In the case of the differences between the two groups, there was a significant difference between the groups just in the relationship between spirituality and psychological capital. 

 © 2018 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Spirituality, Social skills, Academic adjustment, Academic burnout, Psychological capital, Male and female students

 Article History: Received 12 July 2018, Received in revised form 10 October 2018, Accepted 15 October 2018

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.12.013

 Citation:

 Manoochehri A, Behroozi N, Yeylagh MS et al. (2018). Testing and comparing the causal relationship between spirituality and social skills with adjustment and burnout mediated by psychological capital in male and female students. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 5(12): 112-118

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