Abstract:
Life satisfaction refers to individuals’ global evaluation of their own lives. The purpose of this study was to investigated relationship between family communication pattern and life satisfaction whit mediator role of religion Motivation. For this reason, 350 students (150 males and 200 females) from Shiraz university were chosen with multistage random cluster sampling method. The participants responded to the following scales: Life satisfaction scale, (Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin, 1985), family communication pattern scale, (Fitzpatrik& Ritchie, 1999) and Situational motivational scale, (Gay, Vallerand& Blanchard, 2000). Reliability and validity of the measures were approved by Cronbach alpha and factor analysis. Multiple regression and path analysis were used to test the hypothesis. The results by path analysis technique showed that the relationship between family communication pattern and Life of satisfaction was positive direct and significant. That conversational communication pattern can predict life of satisfaction positively. And conformity communication pattern can predict life of satisfaction negatively. In addition, the results showed that family communication pattern had an influence on intrinsic religion motivation and extrinsic religion motivation. In sum, the results showed that religion motivation could have a mediator role in family communication pattern and life of satisfaction. The implications of results were discussed in relation to the pervious literature. Suggestions for future researches, educational practice and limitation of this study were also discussed.
Machine summary:
The present study was conducted with the aim of predicting life satisfaction based on family communication pattern with the mediating role of religious motivation in students.
The purpose of this study was to investigated relationship between family communication pattern and life satisfaction whit mediator role of religion Motivation.
The participants responded to the following scales: Life satisfaction scale, (Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin, 1985), family communication pattern scale, (Fitzpatrik& Ritchie, 1999) and Situational motivational scale, (Gay, Vallerand& Blanchard, 2000).
Life satisfaction is related to a network of psychological variables including positive affect, self-esteem, and optimism (Lucas, Diener, and Suh, 1996), social interaction (Gibson, 1986), personality factors (Emmons and Diener, 1985), income level, social class (George, 1981), religion, and mental health (Willets and Kraider, 1988) (Keshvarz, Mehrabi, and Soltanizadeh, 1388).
Anger, self-esteem, and perceivedsocial support in 11- Levesque, Zuehlke&Stanek 12- Maltby 13- Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) 14- Family Communication Pattern Questionnaire 15- Situational Motivational Scale 16- Root mean square error of approximation 17- Goodness of fit index Persian References: Bakhshipour, Abbas.
From Discussion and Conclusion The present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between the family communication pattern and life satisfaction, considering the mediating role of religious motivation.
Given that the aim of the present research is to investigate the mediating role of religious motivation in the relationship between the family communication pattern and life satisfaction, the direct, indirect, and total coefficients of the research variables along with their significance levels are provided in Table (3).
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