The Relationship between Workaholics Organizational Commitment, and Citizenship Behavior of teachers in Zahedan

Subject Areas :

Naser Nastizaei ¹ , Hosein Jenaabadi ² , fatemeh Rakhshanimehr ³

1 - استادیار، دکترای روانشناسی عمومی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روان شناسی دانشگاه سیستان و بلوچستان، سیستان بلوچستان، ایران.
2 - دانشیار، دکترای روانشناسی عمومی، دانشکده علوم تربیتی و روان شناسی دانشگاه سیستان و بلوچستان، سیستان بلوچستان، ایران.
3 - دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد روانشناسی عمومی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی زاهدان، زاهدان، ایران.

Received: 2014-05-01 Accepted : 2014-11-22 Published : 2015-06-21

Keywords: Organizational Commitment, teachers, Zahedan, Wrkaholism, Citizenship Behavior,

Abstract :

Teachers voluntarily devote many hours to their work activities and this can cause addiction to work in them whose outcome could be organizational commitment and citizenship behavior. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between workaholism, organizational commitment and citizenship behavior of teachers in Zahedan. The research method is descriptive and of correlational, type. 300 elementary school teachers in Zahedan were selected through random sampling the instruments used for data collection were three questionnaires of workaholism, organizational commitment and citizenship behavior. The data was analyzed using the Spearman correlation coefficient and multiple regression through SPSS21. The result showed the mean scores of teachers for the variables workaholism, organizational commitment, and citizenship behavior, were higher than theoretical mean. There were also significant relationship between workaholism with its dimensions (work involvement, feeling of being driven to work, work enjoyment) and organizational commitment and citizenship behavior multiple regression results showed that the dimensions of workaholism can explain and predict organizational commitmentand citizenship behavior.