Corelation of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Hardness with Perceived Stress and Aggression in Retired Veterans

Copyright© 2018, ASP Ins. This open-access article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which permits Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) under the Attribution-NonCommercial terms. [1] Compare elderly mental health nursing ... [2] Handbook of gerontology ... [3] Quality of life in elderly women ... [4] The retirement syndrome: The psychology ... [5] A study on cognitive and depressive ... [6] What cognitive changes can ... [7] Severly stressful events and dementia... [8] Comparative investigation of mental ... [9] Investigating the effectiveness of ... [10] Resources, stressors and psychological ... [11] Effect of forgiveness ... [12] The relationship between ... [13] The effect of cognitive ... [14] Stress management intervention ... [15] The relationship among ... [16] A study of relationship ... [17] Comparison of elderlys “Quality of life” ... [18] Social support as a mediator ... [19] Perceived social support and morale ... [20] Appreciation: Individual differences ... [21] The effectiveness of spiritual ... [22] Hardiness and health ... [23] Stressful life events, personality ... [24] The effect of happiness ... [25] Hope uniquely predicts objective ... [26] The relationship between ... [27] Personality and social resources ... [28] Relationship between perceived ... [29] Type A and ... [30] Relationship between self-efficacy ... [31] Dynamic role of social ... [32] A global measure of ... [33] Predicting academic burnout and engagement ... [34] Perceived stress among medical ... [35] The relationship between ... [36] The aggression ... [37] Preliminary study of psychometric ... [38] A Comparison of aggression ... [39] The multidimensional ... [40] Role of religious orientation ... [41] Psychometric properties ... [42] A comparative study of ... [43] The relationship between ... [44] The relationship of hardiness ... [45] The relationship between perceived ... [46] Hardiness and sense of coherence ... [47] The story of hardiness: Twenty ... [48] The relationship between ... [49] Prediction strategies to coping ... [50] The relationship between anxiety, depression and perceived social support and quality of life among ... [51] Explaining the relationship ... [52] Comments on trends in hardiness ... [53] The relationship of hardiness ... [54] The Comparative study of ... [55] Relationship between humor ... [56] Correlation between personality traits of parents and type of behavioral disorders in ... Aims The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of perceived social support and psychological hardness in perceived stress and aggression of retired veterans. Instruments & Methods This study is a descriptive correlational which was done in Bijar city in 2017. The statistical population of the study consisted of all retired veterans of Bijar city at 92 samples were selected through an available sampling method based on Morgan’s table and responded to perceived social support, hardness, perceived stress and aggression questionnaires. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation, multiple regressions and SPSS 22 software. Findings There was a significant negative corelation between perceived social support and perceived stress (r=-0.26; p<0.05), perceived social support and aggression (r=-0.22; p<0.05), Also, there was a negative and significant corelation between perceived stress and perceived stress (r=-0.30; p<0.05), hardness and aggression (r=-0.27; p<0.05). Finally, there was a significant positive correlation between perceived stress and aggression (r=0.52; p<0.05). Perceived social support and psychological hardness were able to significantly affect 33% of the variance of perceived stress in retired Veterans and significantly predict 49% of the variance of aggression in retired Veterans variable. Conclusion There is a correlation between perceived social support and psychological Hardness with perceived stress and aggression of retired veterans, in a way that perceived social support and psychological hardness can be effective in reducing the stress and aggression of retired veterans and should be considered as effective moderating factors in stress and aggression. A B S T R A C T A R T I C L E I N F O