Prediction Quality Of Life: A Turkish and An Iranian Example

This is a predictive research correlational study to investigate the relationship between the quality of life, self-efficacy beliefs and psychological resilience depending on the culture of university students. In addition, to examine the effects of these variables on the quality of life, crosscultural comparisons were also made between the two countries. Participants of the study consisted of 413 undergraduate students, 229 (55.4%) female and 184 (44.6%) male students studying in Iranian Tabriz Azad University and 511 undergraduate students 295 (57.7%) female and 216 (42.3%) male in Turkey at Hacettepe University who is studying during the 2016-2017 academic year (total 924 students; 56% are Turkish and 44% are Iranian). The self efficacy beliefs levels of the students were measured by the General Self-efficacy beliefs scale developed by Sherer et al. (1982) and adapted to Turkish by Yıldırım and İlhan (2010) and adapted to Persian by Bakhtiyari Barati (1998), the resilience levels measured by Connor and Davidson Resilience Scale developed by Connor and Davidson (2003) and adapted to Turkish by Karaırmak (2007) and adapted to Persian by Besarat et al.(2008) and the Quality of Life levels measured by Quality of Life Inventory developed by Frisch (1992) and adapted to Turkish and Persian by researcher. Also, a personal information form is used in order to collect demographic characteristics of the participants. Pearson s correlation coefficients between the variables of the research [culture (moderator), selfefficacy (independent variable), resilience (mediator) and quality of life (dependent variable)] are positive and statistically significant. In addition, the moderated mediation test was applied to examine the extent to which relationships between variables are explained within the envisaged model; multiple regression analysis results showed that self-efficacy and culture variables explained 23% (R2 =.23, F(3,915)= 118.92, p<.00) of variance in resilience scores and 12% of variance in quality of life scores (R2 =.12, F(2,916)= 65.87, p<.00). The indirect effect of self-efficacy on quality of life is moderated by culture variable. According to the results, Self- efficacy enhances the quality of life. Self- efficacy also increases resilience and also increases quality of life. However, the effect of selfefficacy on resilience varies depending on the culture, and this indirect effect is higher in Turkish students as well.

کلیدواژه ها:

Quality of life ، Self-Efficacy Beliefs ، Resilience ، University Students