Mindfulness, psychological resilience, and social support as predictors of posttraumatic growth in university students

Abstract

 The study aimed to identify the prevalence levels of study variables and to reveal the relationship between mindfulness, psychological resilience, and social support with post-traumatic growth, in addition to identifying the most important predictors of post-traumatic growth among Sana'a University students. The researcher used the descriptive correlational approach, and the study sample consisted of (524) male and female students from the Faculties of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Science, who were exposed to traumatic life events. To achieve the study's objectives, the researcher employed four scales: Mindfulness Scale, Psychological Resilience Scale, Perceived Social Support Scale, and Post-Traumatic Growth Scale. The results showed that the levels of all variables were high among the sample, as the percentages of respondents at the high and medium levels, respectively, for mindfulness (55.2%), (43.3%), for psychological resilience (76.5%), (22.5%), for perceived social support (54.6%), (34.2%), and for post-traumatic growth (56.5%), (39.9%). There were also statistically significant differences between the hypothetical and arithmetic means, in favor of the arithmetic means. The results also revealed statistically significant correlations at the (0.01) level between post-traumatic growth and each of mindfulness (0.43), psychological resilience (0.55), and perceived social support (0.42). The results of the regression analysis indicated that the three variables combined explained (0.41) of the variance in post-traumatic growth, indicating their effective predictive capacity.