The relationship between Personal development and career commitment with the perception of career success in preschool teachers: the mediating role of job enthusiasm

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Dalal asim Abdulridha Moadeneh,, ¹ , Ilnaz Sajadian ² , Mohammed Abed Kadhim Al-Abboodi ³ , Hadi Farhadi ⁴

1 - Phd student, Department of psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
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3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2025-03-07 Accepted : 2025-05-18 Published : 2025-09-22

Keywords: personal development, perception career success , career commitment, job enthusiasm , teachers,

Abstract :

Background and Objectives: Perceived career success is any positive and significant career event that is influenced by personal and job characteristics. The aim of this research was to determine the relationship between personal development and career commitment with the perception of career success in preschool teachers: the mediating role of job enthusiasm. Methods: The research method is descriptive-correlational type. Statistical population consisted of all preschool teachers in the city of Baghdad 2023-2024, from which 200 individuals were selected by the convenience sampling method. The mesurements were the personal development questionnaires (Perreault, 2008), career commitment Scale (Blau et al, 1993), career success perception scale (Nabi, 2000), job enthusiasm Scale (Schaufeli et al, 2004). For data analysis, SPSS and PLS software were used. Findings: The structural analysis showed that personal development and career commitment are able to predict the perception of teachers' career success; Also, the mediating role of job enthusiasm in the relationship between personal development and career commitment with career success perception is significant (p<0.01). Conclusion: According to the results of this study, paying attention to teachers' personal development, career commitment, and job enthusiasm can lead to improving teachers' perceptions of career success; in addition, the results can be of interest to education planners and policymakers and become a basis for increasing teachers' career success.

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