Wa Mediated Regression Analysis

METHODS
Participants:
One hundred and forty four students of secondary and senior secondary level were participated in the study. Participant’s age range from 14-18 years (Mean= 15.48 years; SD=0.96 years). Seventy five of the participants were male (52.08 %) and 69 were female (47.92 %). There were 105 participants form secondary level (72.92 %) and 39 were form senior secondary level (27.08 %) of schooling.
Measures
1. Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, (OHQ Short Form)
OHQ was developed by Hills and Argyle (2002) makes use of eight items to assess happiness. This scale uses 6-point scale affixed with ‘strongly disagree’ to ‘strongly agree’. The scale items express how participants may feel about themselves (e.g., ‘I am well satisfied about everything in my life ’). With adults sample, the OHQ has good internal consistency (Cronbach Alpha = .62) and short-term test-retest reliability (r = .69 after 2 weeks) (Cruise et al. 2006).
2. Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)
SHS

In mediated regression (Baron & Kenny, 1986) the dependent variable (happiness) is regressed on the independent variable. In the second step, mediator (stress) is regressed on the independent variable (mindfulness). On the last step, the dependent variable is regressed consecutively (hierarchical) on both the meditational and independent variables. At each step there must be a significant (p≤0.05) effect and the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable must be less in the third equation than in the first equation. Full mediation is support when the independent variable has no significant (p≤0.05) effect on dependent variable when the mediator variable is controlled, whereas partial mediation is indicated if the effect of the independent variable is reduced but still significant (p≤0.05) when the mediator variable is controlled (Baron & Kenny,