investigating the relationship between hardiness and resilience with the mediating role of hope in women-headed households

Purpose: woman-headed households experience more psychological issues and a lower level of psychological well-being compared to other women. the goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between hardiness and resilience in woman-headed households, with hope serving as a mediator.methodology: the present study is a part of descriptive-correlational research utilizing the cross-sectional research method and structural equation modeling (sem). the statistical population for the study consists of all woman-headed households assisted by the welfare organization in tehran from july to december 2023. a total of 192 woman-headed households were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling as the statistical sample. research instruments utilized were the adult hope scale (ahs), connor-davidson resilience scale (cd-risc), and kobasa’s hardiness scale (khs). descriptive statistics were performed using spss version 27 software, while path coefficients between constructs were analyzed using amos version 24 software. the cb-sem method was employed to develop the structural equation model. a significance level of 0.05 was used in the analysis.findings: based on the current research findings, it was found that hardiness positively and significantly impacted the variable of hope (β=0.801, p=0.001). similarly, the variable of hardiness also had a positive and significant effect on resilience (β=0.953, p=0.001). there was no notable effect of the hope factor on resilience (p=0.868). the study revealed that hardiness did not indirectly and significantly influence resilience through hope (β=0.008 and p=0.864).conclusion: the findings of the current research indicated that hardiness leads to higher levels of hope and resilience. however, the study found that hope does not have a notable impact on resilience, and as a mediator, it did not show any effectiveness in the research.