Could Resilience and Flourishing be Mediators in the Relationship between Mindfulness and Life Satisfaction for Saudi College Students? A Psychometric and Exploratory Study

Abstract

In There are few Arabic studies examining the disposition of mindfulness, resilience, and well-being of college students. The purpose of the present study is to examine the factor structure and internal consistency of the Arabic version of mindful attention awareness scale (MAAS) and the brief resilience scale, and to test a model that describes the role of resilience and well-being, in relation to mindfulness and life satisfaction. For this reason, a study of two folds was conducted with the assistance of Umm Al-Quraa University students (n = 562; n = 534). Mindfulness, resilience, flourishing and life satisfaction scales are the variables that were used. Results show that both mindfulness and resilience scales were revealed to be unidimensional and have high reliability estimates. Both resilience and flourishing are partial mediators in the relationship between mindful and life satisfaction. In addition, resilience had an impact on flourishing. Mindfulness partially had an effect on life satisfaction. In conclusion, mindfulness and resilience scales had good structural validity and reliability.

The Role of Emotional Intelligence, the Teacher-Student Relationship, and Flourishing on Academic Performance in Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Study

“…Moreover, it has been proposed as an indicator of well-being encompassing the experience of feeling joy, contentment, or happiness in life (i.e., hedonic well-being) as well as having an effective psychological functioning (i.e., eudaemonic well-being; Huppert and So, 2013). In fact, flourishing is related to less burnout and higher levels of health, life satisfaction, and work engagement (Garzón-Umerenkova et al, 2018;Younes and Alzahrani, 2018;Freire et al, 2020;Imran et al, 2020). Although this variable has not been extensively studied in adolescents (Witten et al, 2019), and even less in relation to academic performance, some studies suggest that higher levels of flourishing may contribute to a better academic performance and a greater likelihood of prioritizing academic chores (Datu, 2018;Datu et al, 2020).…”

The effect of mindfulness levels on the life satisfaction of nursing students

“…Since it was seen in the evaluation of the distribution of the nursing students' scores on the MAAS and SWLS that their scores on MAAS were not normally distributed, medians were assessed. The median score of the students on the MAAS was 56 (50-64); the median of their scores on the SWLS was 15 (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17) (Table 1).…”

“…A study with Saudi students revealed that mindfulness had an effect on satisfaction with life, albeit not to a great extent. 16 Studies conducted with university students in Spain point to a positive correlation between mindfulness and satisfaction with life. 28,34 University students in South Africa participated in a study where it was found that mindfulness levels had a positive effect on satisfaction with life.…”

“…Life satisfaction is one of the concepts related to mindfulness. When the relationship between mindfulness and satisfaction with life is examined, it is seen that life satisfaction increases as mindfulness increases 12–16,18 …”

“…When the relationship between mindfulness and satisfaction with life is examined, it is seen that life satisfaction increases as mindfulness increases. [12][13][14][15][16]18 Satisfaction refers to meeting one's expectations, needs, wants is the result that is reached when an individual compares his/her expectations with the situation in real-life. Known also as "subjective wellbeing" or "happiness" satisfaction with life generally points to how an individual has cognitively made an evaluation of his/her life and adopted a favorable attitude toward it.…”