Studying Relationship between Professional Competencies and Psychological Empowerment of High School Teachers in the County of Shirvan

This research is studying the relationship between ProfessionalCompetencies and psychological empowerment of high school teachers in the county of shirvan. The method of the research is descriptive correlational in collecting data، and is applicative in purpose. The statistical Population of this study consisted of all high school teachers (329 teachers) in the county of shirvan in school year 2014-2015 That 177 teachers were selected as sample by using Cochrane formula. data were collected through modified ProfessionalCompetencies questionnaire by Karimi (2009) and psychological empowerment questionnaire by Spreitzer and Mishra (1997) and The reliability of questionnaire was estimated by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (professional competencies: 0/928 and pschycological empowerement: 0/838). for analyzing data، descriptive statistics (mean، standard deviation and percent) and inferential statistics (kolmogorov-smirnov tests، one-sample t-test، Pearson coefficient of correlation and Stepwise regression analysis.) were used. The main findings are: 1) professionalcompetencies of high school teachers in the county of shirvan is above of average and assumed mean. 2) psychological empowerment of high school teachers in the county of shirvan is above of average and assumed mean. 3) A positive relationship was found between general indicator of professionalcompetencies and psychological empowerment of high school teachers in the county of shirvan (r=0/833). 4) Three components، Intellectualcompetence، Behavioralcompetence and professional ethicscompetence have a significant contribution in prediction of psychological empowerment of teachers.