Pathology of Self-Confidence and Hope among AJA Staff(Case study: Army's Military Universities)

The aim of this study is to identify the harms in the path of self-confidence and hope of AJA staff with a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) approach. The statistical population for the qualitative phase included some experts in the fields of psychology and sociology, as well as commanders and strategic managers of the army, and for the quantitative phase, included all commanders, managers and staff of some AJA universities. In the qualitative part, 20 people were selected with targeted judgment approach and in the quantitative part, 240 people were selected with stratified random sampling method as the statistical samples. Data collection tools in this study include a semi-structured interview and a 24-item questionnaire in which the validity of the interview questions was calculated by the criterion of acceptability and verification and its reliability by retest method (88.4%). Also, the validity of the questionnaire questions was confirmed by content method and its reliability by Cronbach's alpha method (0.869). Data was analyzed in the qualitative part by content analysis method and in the quantitative part by confirmatory factor analysis in Amos 21 software. The results of the qualitative section showed that the harms of staff's self-confidence and hope can be divided into six categories: command-managerial, educational-personality, occupational-structural, cultural, social and psychological harms. Also, the findings of factor analysis revealed that among the self-confidence harms, command-management (with a factor load of 0.912) and among staff's hope harms, educational-training (with a factor load of 0.972) provide the most support for their measurement model.