Moderating Role of Spiritual Capital in the Relationship between Social Capital and Psychological Capital (Case Study: University of Mazandaran's Employees)

The aim of the present research is investigating the moderating role of spiritual capital in the relationship between social capital and psychological capital among University of Mazandaran’s employees.
The present study in terms of the purpose, collecting data and the test method is practical, survey and correlation. The population of this study is 320 employees of University of Mazandaran. Of these, according to Morgan table 175employees selected and evaluated by simple random sampling method. Also used questionnaire for measuring social capital was based on Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) with 3 constructs namely structural, relational and cognitive. To measure psychological capital, Luthans et al. (2004) questionnaire is used which includes four components such as efficacy, resilient, hopefulness, and optimistic. Also, for measuring spiritual capital, Golparvar et al. (2015) Questionnaire has been used and conceptual model was investigated by structural equation modeling and Smart PLS software.
The results of the survey indicate that the hypothesis of the social capital effect on psychological capital and the hypothesis of the moderating role of spiritual capital in the relation between psychological capital and spiritual capital have been confirmed.
The author of the article concludes that the high amount of social capital and spiritual capital leads to positive behaviors and weaken destructive behaviors in the organization.