the mediating role of purpose in life in the relationships between resilience and happiness among university students

Objective: this study aims to investigate the potential mediation role of purpose in life in the association between resilience and happiness among university students.methods: a sample of 410 students from the university of shiraz and the university of hormozgan participated in this research using a convenience sampling method in the 2022-2023 academic year. to collect data, the resilience scale (rs-14; wagneild, 2009; hashemi et al., 2018), the measure of happiness (mh; rizzato et al., 2022; tavoosi et al., in press), the purpose in life test-short form (pil-sf; schulenberg et al., 2011; tavoosi et al., in press) were used.results: results indicated that resilience and purpose in life were predictors of happiness, accounting for 34% and 62% of the variance, respectively. also, resilience predicts 35% of the variance of purpose in life. the results of the model showed that purpose in life plays a mediating variable in the association between resilience and happiness.conclusions: the findings of the present research provide evidence that people with higher resilience have a purpose in their lives, and having a purpose in life can increase psychological well-being so that people with a purpose in life report higher levels of happiness.