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he purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between family communication patterns and Resiliency with mediating role of satisfying basic psychological needs in high school students. Therefore, 379 participants (183 males and 196 females) were selected by multistage random cluster sampling among high school students in Dezful city. The research tools include: Basic need satisfaction in relationship (Deci & Ryan, 2000). Resilience Scale of Connor - Davidson (2003) and Revised Family Communication Patterns Questionnaire (Koerner and Fitzpatrick, 2002). The reliability and validity of the instruments were approved. To test the model, Path analysis was used that results indicated that among dimensions of family communication patterns, the dialogue dimension has a significant positive direct and indirect effect on resiliency through three psychological. In addition Conformity dimension had indirect effect on resiliency through satisfying needs for relatedness. In sum the results showed that basic need satisfaction had a mediating role in the relationship between family communication pattern and resiliency. The findings of this study are good evidences of direct and indirect impact of parents on children. Therefore, the families who were trying to have a dialogue with children, pay attention to their demands, this resulted in child resilience. Keywords: Dialogue, need for relatedness, need for competence and resiliency.

Background and Objective: Living up based on authentic goals, meaning and striving to achieve personal growth have been defined as mental health. Many studies have addressed the effect of personal and contextual factors on the mental health. This study aimed to determine the relationship of parenting styles and to satisfy basic psychological needs on mental health among gifted students in Shiraz. Methods: Participants consisted of 250 gifted school students (135 boys and 115 girls) which were selected through cluster sampling method. In this study, parental scales as social context, mental health and basic psychological needs were used. Cronbach's alpha was used to check the validity of research data, and confirmatory factor analysis was used to assess the validity of the data from the. The data were analyzed through LISREL. Results: The results of path analysis showed that that there is a significant relationship between parenting styles and satisfying basic psychological needs with mental health among gifted students. This means that, rejection and control style negatively and warmth and autonomy support positively effects on mental health. Also, need to autonomy and competence positively effects on mental health. Also, the satisfying basic psychological needs of involvement were mediated by parenting styles and mental health. Multiple indexes of fitness were used to evaluate the model. Which results (RMSE=0/042, GFI=0/98) showed that there is a fitness between model and data. Conclusion: According to results, Proper parenting style (i.e. warmth and structure styles and lack of correction style) could lead to a higher level of competency and wellbeing among gifted students.