the relationship between character strength and psychological well-being: the mediating strength use and the children's relationship with parents

Background: character strengths show a person's assets over his/her faults or problems, so they are also called personal assets. this study aimed to investigate the role of strength -based parenting moderators in the relationship between character strength and psychological well-being. methods: the research design was correlational. the statistical population included all sixth -grade students in the 18th district of tehran in 2019-2020, which comprised 300 sixth-grade students who were selected through a stratified cluster random sampling method. students completed the values in action inventory of strengths (via-is), ryff's scale of psychological well-being, short-form (18- item), strengths use questionnaire, and parent-child relationship questionnaire (pcrs). descriptive statistics, correlation matrix, and hierarchical regression were performed through spss statistical software, version 25. results: the demographic characteristics of the sample showed that 54% of the sample were firstborn, 35% were second-born and 9.7% were third-born. the findings revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between character strength and psychological well-being (p <0.01). the results also illuminated that strength-based parenting has a moderating effect on the relationship between character strength and psychological well-being in children (p <0.01 ). in total, 55% of changes in psychological well-being were explained by the strength of character and strength- based parenting. conclusion: according to the research findings, it can be concluded that strength-based parenting will change the strength of character and psychological well-being of students.