investigate the effect of work - life balance, on the job satisfaction and the professional commitment of agricultural teachers in Tehran province

The overall goal of this descriptive- correlative study wasto investigate the effect of work - life balance, on the job satisfaction and the professional commitment of agricultural teachers in Tehran province. Statistical population included agricultural teachers (expert and general) of the conservatories and agricultural teachers centers of Tehran province (N=170), that 118 people of them were selected based on Krejci and Morgan as sample by the method of Proportional Stratified Random Sampling. The tool for measuring the work - life balance was the Wang and Ku scale, the tool of career satisfaction measurement was the job satisfaction of MINESOTA and the tool for measuring the professional commitment was the scale of Belav job commitment. The results showed that there is a significant correlation between the work-life balance and the job satisfaction-professional commitment of agricultural teachers.The results of multiple regression showed that the work-life balance explained about 38 percent of job satisfaction variance and 42 percent of professional commitment. Among the elements of work-life balance, the life orientation and job and career maintenance effect on the job satisfaction respectively and the elements of loyalty to the job, maintenance of the job and career and the flexibility of work plan effect on the professional commitment. The teachers of conservatories and the agricultural teachers centers did not have significant difference in terms of the work- life balance quantity but in terms of the job satisfaction and the professional commitment they were different.