Predicting Job Effort Based on Teachers' Psychological Capital and Psychological Empowerment

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Psychology. Payame Noor University .tehrann / Iran

2 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, tehran, Iran

10.30473/jpsy.2026.76673.1105

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the prediction of job effort based on teachers' psychological capital and psychological empowerment in Miandoab city. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included all teachers in Miandoab city, from whom 200 people selected as samples using the available non-random sampling method. Data collected using the Brown & Leigh Job Effort Scale (1996), Luthans Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) (2007), Spreitzer, et al Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire (1997). To analyze the data, regression analysis used with the help of Spss22 software. The results showed that psychological capital and psychological empowerment were able to predict job effort and they predicted more than 34% of the variance in job effort. Therefore, it can be concluded that Psychological Capital and, Psychological Empowerment have a significant role in predicting Job Effort, and the need to pay attention and consider strategies to strengthen these factors seems essential to increase the job effort in teachers.

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