Effect of Proactive Personality on Job Proactive Behavior of Physical Education Experts of Education Departments with the Mediating Role of Sense of Competence

Subject Areas : Sport Sciences Quarterly

hadi taghizadeh ¹ , akram esfahani niya ² , saeed ghorbani ³

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Received: 2022-08-26 Accepted : 2022-08-26 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: Career Success, Creativity, sense of competence, proactive personality, Progress Opportunities,

Abstract :

AbstractThe purpose of present research was to study the effect of proactive personality on job proactive behavior of physical education experts of education departments with the mediating role of sense of competence. The research method is a descriptive survey. The population of study consisted of all physical education experts of the Iranian Education Departments (1141 persons), which according to Cochran formula, 288 participants were selected as sample size by the stratified random sampling method. To gather the research data, questionnaires of Proactive Personality of Bharati et al (2018), Sense of Competence in Job of Van den Broeck et al (2010) and Job Proactive Behavior of Parker et al (2008) were used. Descriptive and inferential statistics methods were used for data analysis. The results of the study indicated that the proactive personality has a positive and significant effect on the physical education experts’ sense of competence in job. Also, the effect of proactive personality on physical education experts’ job proactive behavior was positive and significant. Another part of the research results showed that the effect of sense of competence in job on job proactive behavior is positive and significant. Finally, the results indicated that the effect of proactive personalty on job proactive behavior of physical education experts with the mediating role of sense of competence in job is positive and significant. Based on the results of the research, it could be concluded that proactive personalty can have positive job outcomes such as sense of competence in job and job proactive behavior in physical education experts.