The Relationship Between Psychological Well-being with Creativity and Performance in Male Coaches of Iran’s Football League

This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between psychological well-being with creativity and performance of male coaches of Iran’s football league.

This descriptive type study is carried out through field study. The statistical population includes all 925 coaches present in Iran’s football league in 1394. 200 coaches were selected as sample of the study by Morgan sampling table. The sampling was conducted through random sampling method. 3 questionnaires of Ryff psychological well-being (1980), Torrence creativity (1974), and performance researcher-prepared questionnaire were used for gathering the required data.

For data analysis, Kolmogorov Smirnov (K-S) Tests were used for data distribution test, one-sample T-test for comparing mean variables and hypothetical means of the intended society, Pearson correlation for investigating the relationship between variables and their related components. All statistical works were carried out with SPSS, version 22. Results suggest that all psychological well-being variable and its components except for purposeful life, creativity variable, and its components, and performance variable of male coaches of Iran’s football league are significantly in a proper condition.

Also, there is a positive and significant relationship between psychological well-being and all of its components with creativity and all of its components, between psychological well-being and all of its components with the performance, and between creativity and all of its components with performance.