Fatemeh Nemati

Resilience is an ability and skill that enables a person to adapt to problems and challenges, and this factor contributes to the positive development process of adolescence. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between optimism and psychological needs with self-efficacy in life skills and resilience from early to late adolescence. This research was carried out using a descriptive and correlational research method and in the form of a structural equation model. The statistical population includes boy and girl students of three levels of secondary schools in Bushehr. 600 boy and girl students in three levels of secondary schools were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method and participated in this research. From the Morris selfefficacy scales (SEQ-C), DeCaroli John Sagon b 2014 resilience questionnaire, Scheier & Carver optimism questionnaire (1985), Basic Psychological Needs Questionnaire (BSNQ); Guardia, Deci and Ryan, (2000) were used. The structural equation model was used to analyze the data. The results of data analysis in the modified model showed that the paths of optimism and basic psychological needs to self-efficacy and self-efficacy to resilience were significant in early to late adolescence. It seems that as we approach the end of adolescence, the effect of optimism decreases, but the effect of basic psychological needs increases, and self-efficacy performs its mediating role well in all three periods. On the result of research, there is a significant relationship between optimism and basic psychological needs with resilience through the mediation of self-efficacy.