investigating the relationships between spiritual well-being and other well-being dimensions, and attitude toward high-risk behaviors in adolescents, with emphasis on the mediating role of personality traits

Background: research indicates the increasing prevalence of high-risk behaviors among adolescents, which may have many causes. objectives: the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between spiritual well-being and other dimensions of well-being and the tendency for high-risk behaviors in adolescents, with an emphasis on the mediating role of personality traits. methods: this is a descriptive and correlational study. the statistical population of the study consisted of all high school students in the second semester of the academic year 2018 - 2019 in the city of tehran. data collection tools were spiritual, psychological, social, and physical well-being questionnaires, iranian adolescent risk questionnaire, and pid-5 personality characteristics questionnaire-short version. spss v.22, r programming v.3.6, and amos v.24 were used to analyze the data. results: the results showed that there is a significant relationship between spiritual well-being and other aspects of well-being, i.e., physical health (r = 0.28), social well-being (r = 0.39), psychological well-being (r = 0.44), with p < 0.01 for all. there was also a significant negative relationship between spiritual well-being and components of high-risk behavior (r = 0.48, p < 0.01). in addition, personality traits were found to play a significant role as a mediating variable in the relationship between spiritual well-being and high-risk behaviors. conclusions: spiritual well-being is a factor affecting other aspects of well-being and reducing risky behaviors, and personality traits play an important role in mediating the relationship between spiritual well-being and other dimensions of well-being and high-risk behaviors.