Explore the relationship between psychological capital and organizational commitment, job satisfaction and teaching staff working in three Karaj area schools during the academic year 93-92

Subject Areas : Educational Science

esmaeil saadi pour ¹ , maryam shojaei ²

1 - دانشیار دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی، تهران
2 - دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی تربیتی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی

Received: 2015-12-26 Accepted : 2015-12-26 Published : 2014-04-21

Keywords: psychological capital, Organizational Commitment, Job satisfaction, Positive Psychology,

Abstract :

This study aimed to explore the relationship between psychological capital, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of people who work at schools in region 3 of Karaj. The population included all principals, assistants, teachers, and counselors work at schools in region 3 of Karaj in 1392-93 which amounted to 4750. Sampling was done randomly at 5% error level using the kockeran formoulation. A population of 250 was sampled. The data was collected by using Luthan et al.’s psychological capital questionnaire and in order to measure organizational commitment and job satisfaction we used the questionnaire which Taghizadeh has used in his research. In this study the reliability was calculated as 0.79 for psychological capital, 0.76 for organizational commitment, and 0.80 for job satisfaction. This research is an applied, survey- descriptive study. For analyzing the data, Pearson correlation coefficient was applied. The results showed that psychological capital and it’s four components had a meaningful positive relationship with job satisfaction and organizational commitment.