Structural Equations’ Modeling Relationship between Dimensions of Psychological Capital and mental Hardiness of Employees of Bojnourd Municipality

Subject Areas : social psychology

hajar elahi ¹ , behrang esmaeili shad ²

1 - department of educational sciences,bojnourd branch,islamic azad university,bojnourd,iran
2 - department of educational sciences,bojnourd branch, islamic azad university,bojnourd,iran

Received: 2018-05-15 Accepted : 2018-11-11 Published : 2018-10-23

Keywords: hardiness, Self-efficacy, resilience, Optimism, hope, psychological capital,

Abstract :

The purpose of the study is to consider the relationship between the dimensions of psychological capital and mental hardiness. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population consisted of 220 employees in Bojnourd municipality that according to the Kerjesi-Morgan (1970) table, 155 person were selected by simple random method. The data were collected by questionnaires. Lutans(2007) psychological Capital and hardiness Long and Gollet (1989) questionnaire which their reliability was estimated by Cronbach's alpha (89%) and (84%) and the validity were formal and content type.. The result showed with regard to the amount of path coefficient obtained, 72% and 5/73%, there is a significant relationship between psychological capital and mental hardiness. The coefficients of path between self-efficacy and subjective hardiness of employees were 49% and t-statistic for this coefficient was 6/67, which showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between self-efficacy and mental hardiness. The path coefficient between employees' mental hardiness and hopefulness is 64%. t-statistic for this relationship (6/97) showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between hope and mental hardiness. The amount of path coefficient among the resiliency and mental hardiness of the staff (50%) and the t-value for this coefficient ( 5.50 )showed that there were a positive and significant relationship between the resiliency and mental hardiness of the staff. the path coefficient of relationship between optimism and subjective hardiness of employees ( 73%) and the value of t (7/17) showed there is positive relationship between optimism and mental hardiness of employees.