The mediating role of self-efficacy and optimism in the relation between marital satisfaction and life satisfaction among female teachers in Nahavand

Marital satisfaction, self-efficacy, and optimism play an important role on life satisfaction. Therefore, present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of self-efficacy and optimism in the relation between marital satisfaction and life satisfaction among female teachers in Nahavand.This research study has done through the path analysis. The statistical population of this study included all female teachers in Nahavand city, 612 married women, who were all active teachers in the 93-94 academic years. The sample size in the study, based on the population size and according to Morgan table, was 240. Sampling method in this study was multistage cluster. The collected data used Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (TSWLS), Hudson’s marital satisfaction questionnaire (IMS), Schwartzberg’s general self-efficacy questionnaire (GSE) and optimism questionnaire (R -LOT). The Data analyzed by statistical software’s: SPSS and Amos. The Obtained information through the statistical methods of regression, Pearson’s correlation, and path analysis analyzed. The results from Pearson correlation showed that there are significant correlations between all variables. The regression results also showed that two variables of self- efficacy and optimism in the relation between marital satisfaction and life satisfaction play a mediating role. A path analysis results as well, for direct effect of marital satisfaction on life satisfaction, was equal to 0/221. Examining the indirect effect of marital satisfaction on life satisfaction through the mediating role of the two variables, self-efficacy and optimism, was estimated 0/287, of which self-efficacy in this work has a0/17 share and optimism 0/11. Marital satisfaction variable has the ability to direct predictive teachers’ life satisfaction. In addition, the two variables, self-efficacy, and optimism, indirectly play a mediating role, between the two variables of marital satisfaction and life satisfaction for the teachers.