Designing and testing a model of some antecedents of happiness at work

The purpose of this study was designing and testing a model of some antecedents of happiness at work. The research sample consisted of 322 employees of Foolad Gharb Asia Company, who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The participants completed psychological capital, perceived interactive justice, supervisor support, opportunity of growth and promotion, pay satisfaction, trust in supervisor, job satisfaction and happiness at work questionnaires. Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling (SEM), using SPSS-19 and AMOS-19 software packages. The indirect effects were tested using the bootstrap procedure. Findings indicated that the proposed model fitted the data properly. Better fit obtained by omitting 1 non-significant path. Finding also showed that all direct and indirect paths except psychological capital to trust in supervisor were significant.