راضیه عابدینی ولامدهی

Given increasing evidence that challenges the implicit autonomy assumption in the field of vocational psychology (that all people have the autonomy to make career choices), the psychology of working theory (PWT) expands the current vocational research and practice by taking an inclusive consideration that people are facing contextual constraints and thus may not be able to make free choices in their career. The purpose of this study was to investigat the psychometric properties of Decent Work Scale in employees of one hospital in Mashhad city.

The sample consisted of 180 employees who were selected by census method, who completed Decent Work (2017), Social Support (1998), Adjustment (1961), and Job Satisfaction questionnaires were completed.

Evaluation of internal consistency of questionnaire by Cronbach's alpha method and correlation of each question with total score, showed that questions of this scale have acceptable internal consistency. In order to investigate the validity of the Decent Work Scale, several methods were used. The exploratory factor analysis with principal components method and varimax rotation, as expected, showed that 15 items of the Decent Work Scale were loaded on five factors of individually directed safe working conditions, access to healthcare, adequate compensation, free time, and complemental values. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that 3 items of this scale significantly loaded on the five-factorial and the five-factorial model has a better fit with the data than the one-factorial model. The results of the convergent validity showed there is a positive correlation between the total score of the scale and the scores of safe working conditions, access to healthcare, adequate compensation, free time, and complemental values subscales. Also, the correlation of Decent Work Scale with job satisfaction (0.59), job adjustment (0.26) and social support (0.30) has been calculated.

It should be noted that the Decent Work Scale in the workplace can better predict the five factors of safe working conditions, access to healthcare, adequate compensation, free time and rest, and organizational value. Overally, the study findings showed that this scale, similarity to the West research, is composed of five factors and has acceptable validity and reliability. Consequently, it can be applied to measure this construct in Iranian employees.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the prediction of psychological well-being based on emotional intelligence and life satisfaction of male and female teachers. The statistical population of the study included all male and female primary school teachers in Zaveh city in the academic year of 1399, from among whom 180 primary school teachers were selected based on simple random sampling procedure. Due to the Corona virus pandemics, participants completed the Emotional Intelligences (Shot, 1998), Life Satisfaction (Diener at el, 1985) and Psychological Well-Being (Ryff, 1980) questionnaires via online channels. Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression analysis were used to analyze the data through SPSS software version 24. The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and life satisfaction with psychological well-being. Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction have a significant role in predicting psychological well-being. They account for 31% of variation of psychological well-being in the male teachers and 42% of variation of psychological well-being in the female teachers. Also, the results of comparative analysis showed that in male teachers, emotional intelligence with 23% had a significant and positive contribution to psychological well-being, but in female teachers, emotional intelligence with 22% and life satisfaction of 20% had almost the same contribution to predict psychological well-being. The results of this study support the role of emotional intelligence in male teachers and emotional intelligence along with life satisfaction in female teachers, as an effective factor in predicting psychological well-being that can be a facilitating issue in providing practical suggestions in this area.

Because people with different personality traits display different decisions to participate in projects introduced by the ministry of education and especially Jaber project, the aim of the present study was the comparison of the personality traits of two groups of participating and non-participating primary school teachers in Jaber project during 1399-1400 in Zaveh city. The method of the present research was descriptive and causal-comparative. The statistical population consisted of 320 primary school teachers from whom 104 teachers were selected as the sample of the study based on the availability principle (61 participating and 43 non-participating in the Jaber project). Due to the Corona virus problem and the absence of teachers in schools, data were collected through WhatsApp and Telegram social networks. In this study, participants completed the personality questionnaire developed by McCray and Costa (1975). To analyze the findings, descriptive statistics and independent samples T-test via SPSS software version 24. The results of the study showed that in terms of personality traits of extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness, there was a significant difference between the participating and non-participating teachers in Jaber project. Considering that personality traits are considered as important and influential factors in teachers' participation in the proposed projects, paying attention to these traits can be necessary to understand this issue.

Following the prevalence of COVID-19 and quarantine, the requirement to observe safety and hygiene during this period has left various effects on the psychological and social aspects of society. Because people with different personality traits have shown different behaviors for safety attentions during the quarantine, the present study aimed to examine and test a model of personality and cognitive antecedents of health considerations COVID-19.

For this purpose, a sample of 220 people working in education and universities, were evaluated online and through social networks. Participants completed the safety considerations questionnaire (safety behavior and safety attitude), internal locus of control, NEO questionnaire. The proposed model was evaluated through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) AMOS-23 and SPSS V. 23. The bootstrap procedure by Preacher and Hayes (2008) was used for testing indirect relationships.

The results showed that the designed model had good fit indicators. Apart from the relationship between agreeableness and internal locus of control (negative relationship), other relationships between variables were reported to be positive and direct. The position of internal locus of control also played the role of a complete mediator.

The conscientiousness trait activates the internal locus of control construct, and consequently, the person tends to observe health behaviors. In other words, the whole conscientiousness effect leads to the observance of hygienic principles through the intervention and occupation of the cognitive structure of the locus of control (full mediator). The simple relationship between neuroticism and the locus of control, which was reported to be negative (-0.20), changed to (0.23) due to interaction with the conscientious variable. Explaining this change in signs and values indicates that a linear interpretation of the data cannot be provided. Therefore, it can be said that creating some concern in people about health messages and critical and searching following Coronavirus information along with conscientiousness, can provide profitable conditions for the tendency towards health behaviors.

The aim of this study was designing and testing model of the effect of knowledge motivation characteristic on motivational processes with mediating role of psychological empowerment, promotion regulatory focus and learning goal orientation employees of Khuzestan Steel Co. The statistical population included employees of Khuzestan Steel Company. A sample of 350 persons was selected through stratified random sampling. Job characteristics (Morgeson & Homphery), learning goal orientation (VandeWalle), Psychological Empowerment (Spreitzer), Promotion Regulatory Focus (Wallace), Goal Generation (Bindel) and Goal Striving (Bindel et al) questionnaires were used. The path analysis method was used through AMOS-23 and SPSS-23 software packages for data analysis. also Preacher and Hayes Bootstrap procedure was used for testing indirect hypotheses in the proposed model. The findings of the study indicated that the proposed model fit the data relatively proper. Better fit and more significant results were obtained by correlating the errors of the two paths proposed AMOS modification indices. The results of the study confirmed direct hypothesis. In the case of indirect relationships, the results showed that all of the indirect hypotheses were confirmed. In addition the result showed that motivational states (psychological empowerment, promotion regulatory focus and learning goal orientation) have an indirect effect on the relationship between knowledge motivation characteristic and motivational processes (goal generation and goal striving). Also, the results showed that knowledge motivation characteristic had the positive effect on Motivational processes and ultimately organizational outputs.