Modeling Causal Relationships between Psychological Capital, Strategies for Coping with Stress, and Psychological Resilience among Staff Members at Umm Al-Qura University

Abstract

The study aimed to build a model that explains the relationships between facing stress as an independent variable, psychological capital as a mediating variable, and psychological resilience as a dependent variable among a sample of staff members at Umm Al-Qura University. The basic study sample consisted of (64) faculty members at Umm Al-Qura University, and the study tools included the psychological capital scale, the stress coping scale, and the psychological resilience scale. To analyze the results of the study, the IBM SPSS v.23 program and the Amos v.20 program were used. The results of the study concluded that (psychological capital) has a positive effect as a mediating variable on the relationship between stress coping and psychological resilience, the presence of direct and indirect effects of psychological resilience and its dimensions on facing pressure and its dimensions through psychological capital.