Introduction: The families of children with intellectual disability, especially their mothers, are under more psychological and physical disterss than the mothers of healthy children, such a situation can lead to a decrease in life satisfaction and mental health in the mothers of these children. therefore, purpose of this study was to investigating mediating role of grit in the relationship betweenpsychological hardiness and resiliencewith life satisfaction and mental health among mothers of children with intellectual disability Method: In this research the statistical population all mothers of children with intellectual disability of Khorramabad in year of 2022-2023. The sample size was selected based on Kline (2023) formula and with subjective sampling method of 300 people.To measure the variables, satisfaction with life scale (SWLS), mental health inventory (MHI), psychological hardiness scale (PHS), resilience scale (CD-RISC) and short grit scale (GRIT–S). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and structural equation modelling with using SPSS-24 and AMOS software was investigated. Results: The findings showed that the direct paths were significant and grit in the relationship between psychological hardinessand life satisfaction (β=0.521 and sig=0.005), psychological well-being (β=0.471 and sig=0.002)and psychological helplessness (β=0.352 and sig=0.038) has a mediating and significant role. Finally, the results showed that grit in the relationship between resilience and life satisfaction (β=0.535 and sig=0.003), psychological well-being (β=0.271 and sig=0.036) and psychological helplessness (β=0.311 and sig=0.013) has a mediating and significant role. In addition, proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the data and analyses also revealed that 89% of the variance of life satisfaction, 77% of the variance of psychological well-being and 75% of the variance of psychological helplessness is explained by psychological hardiness and resilience with mediating role of grit. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the welfare organization, in addition to providing material assistance and support to these families, should also pay attention to the problems of the mothers of these children, and with the help of psychologists and workers, mothers who are less satisfied with life and health should be taken into consideration.
Veyskarami F, Khalafi A. The Mediating Role of Grit in the Relationship between Psychological Hardiness and Resilience with Life Satisfaction and Mental Health among Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disability. IJPN 2024; 12 (4) :36-51 URL: http://ijpn.ir/article-1-2303-en.html