The effect of psychological capital on the job satisfaction of male officers of Police Organization

Context and The organizations for having the maximum productivity and efficiency require the human resources who have the high job satisfaction. Some factors affect the job satisfaction; one of them is psychological capital of the own individual. The objective of this study is assessing the effect of psychological capital on the job satisfaction and the effect rate of each one of psychological capital aspects (self-efficiency, hope, optimism, compromise) on the job satisfaction, and taking effort to understand if the officers having high psychological capital are more satisfied with themselves and if so which aspect of psychological aspect has the maximum effect. Procedure: The procedure of this study is applied and its method is descriptive-survey. The population of this research is consisted of all male junior officers and senior officers of Police Organization. In this study, a sample consisted of 110 elements was selected by simple sampling method. The data was collected by means of standard questionnaire and the data was analyzed by linear regression test aiding SPSS software. The results of this study indicated that psychological capital and all its elements have positive effect on job satisfaction. Among the psychological capital aspects, self-efficiency had the maximum significant and positive effect and the hope the minimum effect on job satisfaction. The priority of the effect of psychological capital elements on the job satisfaction is respectively as self-efficiency, compromise (resiliency), pessimism and hope. All elements together with each other (psychological capital) had more effect than separately on the job satisfaction.