Psychological Resilience and Positive Affect Through Subjective Well-Being: The Moderated Mediation Role of Social Connectedness
SAGE OPEN, cilt.16, sa.3, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1177/21582440261464678
- Dergi Adı: SAGE OPEN
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Directory of Open Access Journals, Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Education Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
- Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Adolescence is a pivotal developmental stage in which protective factors, such as resilience, well-being, and positive affect gain critical importance. Therefore, this study aims to present a comprehensive model for strengthening adolescents' coping capacities through teachers' perspectives and assessments of students in adolescence and to fill a theoretical gap in the literature by examining the mediating role of subjective well-being in the association between psychological resilience and positive affect and the moderating role of social connectedness in this association. This study employed a mixed-methods approach grounded in pragmatist philosophy, using the exploratory sequential design's scale development sub-design. In the qualitative phase, in-depth interviews were conducted with teachers in Ankara, T & uuml;rkiye, to generate scale items. In the subsequent quantitative phase, the developed scale was administered to the same target group, followed by comprehensive validity and reliability analyses to ensure its psychometric soundness. Accordingly, the study examined the associations among adolescents' psychological resilience, subjective well-being, positive affect, and social connectedness within a cross-sectional design from teachers' perspectives. The results revealed significant interrelations among these variables, indicating that, according to teachers, adolescents' subjective well-being reflects both individual and social dimensions. Moreover, subjective well-being mediated the associations between psychological resilience and positive affect, while social connectedness indirectly reinforced these associations. The findings suggest that teachers perceive adolescents' well-being as a multidimensional and integrated psychosocial construct. However, given the study's cross-sectional design, the results reflect relational rather than causal or longitudinal associations among the variables.