The Mediating Role of Marital Satisfaction in the Relationship between Ego strength and Job Success

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Arezoo  Shokri ¹ (Department of Counseling, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
abdollah  shafiabady ² (Allameh Tabatabaii University. Tehran, Iran)
Farideh  dokaneheeifard ³ (Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran)

Received: 2019-09-08 Accepted : 2019-09-30 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: marital satisfaction, job success, ego strength,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of marital satisfaction in the relationship between ego strength and job success. The method of this study was structural equation correlation. The statistical population included married workers in the eastern provinces of Tehran province in 1977. The sample size consisted of 300 people and were selected by simple random sampling. Sample subjects completed the Job Probe Questionnaire (1), Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire (1986), and Ego Mark Strom et al. (1997). Structural equations were used to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between ego strength and job success (p01/0>). There was a positive and significant relationship between marital satisfaction and job success (p01/0>). Also, marital satisfaction positively and significantly mediates the relationship between ego strength and job success(p01/0>).Therefore, it can be concluded that in order to improve job success, attention should be paid to employees' personality and family factors.