An Investigation of the Relationship of IUT Organizational Climate with Undergraduate Students' Mental Health in the Academic Year of 2008-2009
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planningناهید شیرانی 1 , احمد شعبانی 2 , غلامرضا احمدی 3
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Keywords: Social System, educational system, Human Relations, Facility services, mental health, Organizational Culture, Isfahan University of Technology, organizational climate,
Abstract :
The current survey investigates the organizational climate of Isfahan University of Technology (in five dimensions organizational culture, social system, human relations, facility services, and educational system) and its relation to the undergraduate students' mental health during 2008-2009. The research design was a descriptive correlation. The statistical population for this study comprised the entire IUT's undergraduate students with a population of 6994 students of which 500 students were selected through random classified sampling. The instrument for collecting the data was a researcher- made questionnaire namely the organizational climate questionnaire comprised 52 questions and the standard mental health questionnaire with 90 questions. Each student received both organizational climate along with a mental health questionnaire. The reliability of the two above questionnaires proved to be 0.86 and 0.97 respectively, utilizing the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The validity was also substantiated based on the opinions of the specialist of the IUT consulting center and corresponding professors. Both descriptive analysis (frequency, percentage, average value, and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlations coefficient, multi-variable regression, independent t-test, analysis of variance, Schefe test, and conical correlation test) were used for analyzing the data. The findings revealed that there was a statistical meaningful relation among all the organizational climate factors (with the exception of educational system) with students' mental health at p ≤ 0.05 level. Also regarding beta coefficient, most students' mental health predictors were organizational
