The Relationship Between the Psychological Ownership with Affective Commitment and Desire to Stay in Job for the Employees at National South Oil Company-Ahvaz

The purpose of this study was investigating the relationship between psychological ownership with affective commitment and intent to stay in job. Research method was correlation and statistical population was the employees of Nationtal South Oil Compony–Ahvaz. Among them 126 employees were selected via stratifield random sampling. Research instruments consisted of psychological ownership questionnaire (Van Dyne & Pierce, 2004), affective commitment questionnaire (Mowday, steers, & porter, 1979), intent to stay in job questionnaire (Wiener & Vardi, 1980). Data were analyzed using analysis Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis. finding showed that there was a significant correlation between psychological ownership, and one of its dimension (organization- based psychological ownership), with affective commitment (P < 0.05). The expected, was the significant correlation between psychological ownership and it’s both dimensions with intent to stay in job (P < 0/01). And the result of regression analysis revealed also that organization-based psychological ownership better predicted affective commitment and intenet to stay in job (P < 0.01).