en رويكرد شناختي رفتاري Cognitive behavioral پژوهشي Original Research Article <p style="text-align: justify"><strong>Objective:</strong> Psychological hardiness is a protective personality structure against life stresses that plays a major role in resisting stressful events. Thus, the present research aimed to predict the psychological hardiness based on mental health and emotional intelligence in students.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"><strong>Methods:</strong> The method applied in the research was a descriptive-correlation type. A total of 348 students of Payame Noor University, Eleshtar branch, studying in the academic year of 2012/13 were selected through random sampling method. Data were collected through the psychological hardiness, mental health, and emotional intelligence questionnaires and were analyzed by the simple correlation coefficient and multiple regressions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"><strong>Results:</strong> Findings revealed that there was a positive and significant relationship between mental health and emotional intelligence and its components (self-motivation, self-consciousness, self-control, social awareness, and social skills) with psychological hardiness. Also, step by step regression results indicated that self-motivation (&beta =0.386), self-control (&beta=0.229), social skills (&beta=0.239), and social consciousness (&beta=0.210) are highly capable of predicting psychological hardiness scores.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"><strong>Conclusion:</strong> By promoting psychological hardiness through increasing mental health and emotional intelligence, we can overcome stressful and anxious factors, as well as factors resulting in most psychological problems.</p> Mental health, Emotional intelligence, Emotional intelligence components, Psychological hardiness, Students 255 262 http://jpcp.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-111-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Banafsheh Hasanvand بنفشه حسنوند mohammadiarya@yahoo.com No M.Sc. of Educational Psychology کارشناس ارشد روانشناسی تربیتی Ali Reza Mohammadi Arya علیرضا محمدی آریا ba_hasanvand@yahoo.com No Assistant Professor استادیار Ebrahim Rezaei Dogaheh ابراهیم رضایی دوگاهه ebrahim_rezaee@yahoo.com Yes Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. استادیار