The predictive role of psychological capital, psychological hardiness and spiritual intelligence in students’ psychological well-being

Psychological well-being refers to the experienced quality of life and reflects optimal psychological functioning and experience. We evaluate our life as either good or bad and if the evaluation provides us the sense of achieving one’s full psychological potential then it leads to psychological well-being. The aim of this study is to investigate the variables of psychological capital, psychological hardiness and spiritual intelligence as predictor factors in psychological well-being in the students. This study is a descriptive–correlation study. The study population are all students of Kharazmi, Islamic-Azad and Payam_e_Noor universities of Karaj in the 1391-92 school-year and the sample consisted of 377 persons that were selected by multi stage cluster sampling. For data gathering was used from questionnaires such as Ryff’s Psychological Well-being, Psychological Capital Questionnaires, Personal Views Survey Questionnaires and King’s Spiritual Intelligence Self‐Report Inventory and data analysis was performed by using enter multiple regression method. Results showed that the variables of psychological capital, psychological hardiness and spiritual intelligence predict 58/8% of the psychological well-being. The variables of psychological capital, psychological hardiness and spiritual intelligence can predict students’ psychological well-being and psycho therapists can manipulate this factors for increase the students’ psychological well-being.