Passion and Flourishing in University Students: The Moderating and Mediating Roles of Resilience

The presented article analyses the issue of university students’ passion and flourishing in the context of the moderating and mediating role of resilience. Research has shown that passion is related to flourishing, and ego resilience explains this relationship significantly among people with high and average scores. Mediation analysis showed a positive relationship between harmonious passion and resilience coping, consequently affecting flourishing. Thus, higher levels of harmonious passion in students correlate with higher levels of resilient coping, which is associated with greater flourishing. The conclusions suggesting a negative relationship between obsessive passion and flourishing and no relationship with resilience are equally important.

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