The Effect of Job Self-Efficacy on Professional Development and Innovative Work Behaviors with the Mediating Role of Work vitality of Primary Teachers in Abadan

The present study aimed to investigating the effect of job self-efficacy on professional development and innovative work behaviors with the mediating role of work ethic of primary teachers in Abadan and present a structural equation model.

This study was methodologically descriptive-correlational, and the statistical population consisted of male (344) and female (493) primary school teachers in Abadan city with 837 teachers formed the sample size Krejcie and Morgan A total of 240 teachers (137 females and 103 males) were selected by simple random sampling.The intrinsic Teachers' occupational self-efficacy questionnaire Schanen, Moran & Wolfolk (2001), Drummond & Young (2010) professional development questionnaire, Johnson Innovative Work behavior questionnaire (2003) and Kruff questionnaire (2003) were employed for data collection. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed based on the content validity by CVR and CVI methods. Moreover, the reliabilities of the scales were estimated at 0/940, 0/795, 0/721, 0/873 respectively, based on the Cronbach alpha coefficient.

The findings showed that the indirect effect of job self-efficacy on professional development through work ethic; And the indirect effect of job self-efficacy on innovative behavior through work ethic has been more than its direct effect.