The moderating role of self-esteem in the relationship between Mindfulness and psychological well-being

This study aims to evaluate the moderation effects of self-esteem on the association between mindfulness and psychological well-being in the students of Azad University of Kashan. The type of this research is in the field of applied research and the nature and method of data collection is in descriptive-correlation study. The statistical population of this research is the all of students of Islamic Azad University of Kashan who are studying in the second semester of the academic year 96-97. By using multi-stage random cluster sampling, 277 students are selected and these students completed a packet of three questionnaires that assessed mindfulness, self-esteem, and psychological well-being (consist of the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory-Short Form, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory, and the Ryff's Scale Psychological Well-being inventory-Short Form). To analyze the data descriptive statistics (average, frequency and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (coefficient correlation Pearson, and moderating regression) to generalize the results of the sample to the community and SPSS software was used for data analysis. The results showed that each of these variables of psychological well- being, self-esteem and mindfulness have a significant relationship with each other. Also, the findings from moderating regression indicate that the self-esteem significantly (p<0.01) could explain 38% of the psychological well-being variable. These findings show the moderating role of self-esteem in the relationship between mindfulness and psychological well-being variables.