title: Patience and Mental Health in Iranian Students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  While the role of some personality traits has been comprehensively explored, scientific study of others, such as patience has been neglected. Psychologists have paid scant attention to patience as a personality trait, character strength or virtue.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The current study examined the relationship between patience and life satisfaction, mental health, and personality.
  
  
  METHODS
  A sample of 252 Iranian college students (129 females and 123 males) completed the 3-factor patience scale, satisfaction with life scale, general health questionnaire, anxiety and depression scales and mini international personality item pool-big five.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The three types of patience (interpersonal, life hardship, and daily hassles) were associated with higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of depression, anxiety and psychological dysfunction. Patience also showed moderate relationship with the Big-Five factors of personality. After controlling the personality factors, patience managed to explain additional unique variance in life satisfaction and mental health indicators.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patience is a unique predictor of mental well-being. It is suggested that long-term patience is more important for depression and general health, whereas short-term patience is more beneficial for hedonic well-being.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Naser
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aghababaei
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Taghi
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Tabik
keywords: Mental Health; Personal Satisfaction; Personality; Virtues