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  Introduction: In the adolescence period people come to get to grip with problems, mainly those caused by puberty. In this period, because adolescents come to more understanding with sexual pleasure and an increase in factors stimulating their emotions, they are more perceptive to commit crimes and social harms, chiefly delinquency. delinquent adolescents are ostracized from their family and society, and are, therefore, always under the pressure of stress. These stressful conditions are also intensified due to their presence in prison. With regard to the matter of resiliency in subduing undesirable conditions and preventing delinquent adolescents to become pervert, it is of utmost importance for the factors affecting resiliency in these adolescents to be recognized. As a result, this paper studies the relation of social support and coping styles with resiliency in delinquent adolescents.

  Method: 120 adolescents at Tehran Correctional Center were selected on an available sampling method. The data were collected using coping styles questionnaire and perceived social support questionnaire and resiliency questionnaire.

  Findings: The results show that social support and problem-centered coping style and emotion-centered coping style have positive correlation with resiliency of adolescents in correctional institution (p<0/01). Also, problem-based coping style and social support are able to predicting resiliency in male delinquent adolescents.

  Discussion : According to the findings of this study it can be concluded that the increase of social support of delinquent adolescents by related institutions especially family and also teaching problem-centered coping skills have significant role in increasing their resiliency.

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Introduction: Child abuse and misconduct with children have adverse effects on their growth and health and  consequences such as anxiety, depression, risk of suicide, antisocial behavior and drug abuse. One of the important components that  affects mental health is social support. Social protection, as one of the critical factors, can decrease the development of mental illness and improve mental health status. It means the more  social support increases, the more the level of health increases and vice versa. Life quality is one of the factors which affects abused child’s quality of life . The world health organization defines the quality of life as an individual’s perception of their position in life in the content of culture and value system in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns. Given the importance of quality of life and the perception of social support for mental health,  this study investigates the moderating role of perceived social support on the relationship between mental health and the life quality of abused children.
Method: This  is a  descriptive –correlation study. The  statistical populaion of study included all abused children 7 to 12 years old at Torbat Haidarieh city. The sample size of the study included sixty abused children whose have file and record in social emergency section and have been experiencing one type of child abuse such as negligence, physical and sexual. They were chosen as whole-count. Three questionnaires of perceived social support of family, mental health and life quality were used to collect data for this research. The Kolmogorov- Smironov test was used to determine the normal distribution of data. Then, to examine the relationship between mental health and life quality, Pearson correlation coefficient was used. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to investigate the moderating role of social support on the relationship  between mental health and life quality.
Findings: Findings indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between mental health and quality of life (r = .63, p <.0001). It means that with the increase of mental health, the  quality of life increases. Hierarchical regression analysis also indicates that the combined effect of mental health and perceived social support is significant. So, perceived social support has a moderating role in the relationship between mental health and quality of life. In the next step,  follow up tests (Post hoc probing) method were used to show that in what circumstances the perceived social support variable (when perceived social support is high and when perceived social support is low) has moderating role. Therefore, once the combined effect of high perceived social support and mental health and once again the combined effect of low perceived social support and mental health were analyzed (follow up tests -post hoc probing). It became clear when quality of life is low, but social support is high, mental health is high. Also, when the quality of life is high, but social support is low, mental health is low.
Discussion: The results of the study showed that with increasing mental health, quality of life also increases. Concerning the moderating variable of perceived social support, the results also indicate that perceived social support has a moderating role in the relationship between mental health and quality of life. In general, social support is a protective factor against the harmful effects of various types of stress. The perception of social support creates positive relationships, problem-solving skills, and protection skills against emotional and behavioral problems. Social support is considered as an important factor among adult victims and abused children and reduces the psychological effects of stressful injuries, as well as facilitates emotional and cognitive functioning among victims of abuse.

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Introduction:  The purpose of this study was to explain the sense of self-actualization among students by perceived social support and social capital.
Method: In a descriptive-correlational study, from among all students of various schools of Azerbaijan Shahid Madani University, in 2018-2019, 361 students (211 males and 150 females) were selected using multistage cluster sampling method and the margin of error Cochran. The participants completed the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Ahwaz Self – Actualization Inventory and Social capital Inventory. Data analysis was performed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis (stepwise).
Findings: The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between perceived social support components with the sense of self-actualization. Also, there was a positive and significant relationship between the components of social capital with the sense of self-actualization. Moreover, stepwise regression results showed that from components of perceived social support, important persons and friends were able to predict the sense of self-actualization. These results also indicated that from components of social capital, social solidarity and collective identity were able to predict the sense of self-actualization. 
Discussion: Considering the positive relationship between perceived social support and social capital with the sense of self-actualization among students and predicting the sense of self-actualization.based on these variables, it can be concluded that perceived social support and social capital variables are important factors in explaining students’ sense of self-actualization.

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Introduction: All over the world every year, many families abandon their children due to various problems, including family and financial problems. The most common form of keeping these people is living in orphanages. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the fit of the structural model of psychological capital and perceived social support with quality of life in girls living in orphanages with the mediating role of psychological empowerment.
Method: The method of the current research quantitative wherein correlation was done in the form of structural equation modeling. The research population consisted of girls living in orphanages in Rasht city in 1400 (2021), and 120 of them were selected by available sampling method. They responded to Luthans psychological capital, perceived social support questionnares developed by Zimet et al. in tandem with Spritzer psychological empowerment questionnaire and WHO quality of life questionnaire. The data were analyzed by the method of structural equation modeling based on partial least squares approach with SmartPLS3 software.
Findings: All exogenous and mediating variables, i.e., psychological capital, perceived social support, and psychological empowerment, were found to be able to predict 75% of the changes in the quality of life in girls living in orphanages, which is very strong. The GOF index of this research is 0.586, which is strong according to the set criteria, the general model of the research was also found to have a good fit.
Discussion: According to the results, it can be concluded that psychological empowerment intensifies the effectiveness of psychological capital and perceived social support on the quality of life of orphanage residents and mediates it.