فصلنامه مشاوره شغلی و سازمانی
پیاپی 27 (تابستان 1395)

This study aimed to investigate of psychometric properties of Employee Well-Being Scale of Zheng, Zhu, Zhao & Zhang (2015). For this purpose, 201 employees of industrial company in Bushehr were selected randomly and completed questionnaires. The instruments of research contained Employee Well-Being, Job Satisfaction, Positive and Negative Affect, Affective Commitment, Job Performance and Turnover Intention scales. The internal consistency with Cronbach's alpha and correlation of each questionnaire's items with total score of scale showed acceptable reliability. The validity of employee well-being scale was confirmed through multiple ways. First, confirmatory factor analysis showed that three-factor structure of this scale is good. Second, results of convergent and discriminant validity showed that employee well-being scale has significant positive relationship with job satisfaction and positive affect and significant negative relationship with negative affect. Third, results of predictive validity indicated that employee well-being was able to predict job satisfaction, affective commitment, and turnover intention and job performance. Overall, the results showed that Employee Well-Being Scale is valid and reliable scale for measuring Iranian's employee well-being.

The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of psychological capital on organizational citizenship behavior with mediating role of occupational well-being and moderating role of job spiritual intelligence in employees. The participants consisted of 222 employees of Lorestan Province Gas Company that were selected by multiple stages random sampling method. Fitness of proposed model, indirect effect and moderator effect was examined through structural equation modeling, bootstrap procedure and moderated hierarchical regression. The instruments in this study included Psychological Capital Questionnaire of Luthans, Avolio, Avey, & Norman (1991), Job Performance Questionnaire of Williams & Anderson (1991), Occupational Well-Being Scale of Hinkin (1998) and Spiritual Intelligence at Work of Neal (2004). Findings indicated that compliance and proposed model fit with actual data. In confirmed model, results also indicated that psychological capital directly and with mediating role of occupational well-being had impact on organizational citizenship behavior. Findings also indicated that job spiritual intelligence has moderated relationship between psychological capital and organizational citizenship behavior. According to obtained results, it is suggested that in order to promote organizational citizenship behavior, organizations provide conditions for increasing of psychological capital, job spiritual intelligence and occupational well-being.

Since there is no clear vision of career development for students, present research was aimed to examine effectiveness of career counseling on development of cognitive map of occupations in primary school students. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The sample consisted of 72 students (third, fourth and fifth grade in elementary school) that was chosen by cluster sampling among two schools at random and were assigned into experimental and control groups. The data were collected by cognitive map of career researcher made questionnaire (for elementary school students). ANOVA and ANCOVA were used to analyze data. The results indicated that there was significant difference between mean scores of experimental group before and after training program in cognitive plan of boys and girls. According to results, it was concluded that cognitive map of occupations can be expanded by counseling career and helped them to choose better jobs at older ages.

The present study was aimed to examine effectiveness of family training classes in career adaptability of first grade high school students. The research method was quasiexperimental with pretest-posttest and control group. Independent variable is family training and dependent variable is career adaptability. The study population consisted of all first grade high school girl students of Saqez city in 2012-2013 academic years. At first a school was selected by random sampling and then 30 students and their mothers were selected by using simple random sampling and were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. Experimental group for 7 sessions (1.20 hour) received family training in each week and it took 1.5 months for experimental group. Data was collect by Yousefi's Adaptability Career Scale (2011). To illustrate the difference between groups, the mean and standard deviation of experimental and control groups were calculated and multivariate regression analysis was used for data analysis. The results showed that with regard to pre-test scores as variable diffraction (help)interventions have led to significant difference between experimental and control groups (P=0.001). This means that family training classes had impact on improvement of career adaptability (curiosity and trust, concern).

Purpose of this study was comparison of optimism, job satisfaction and quality of work life of seafarers and onshore staffs of National Iranian Tanker Company. The study utilized descriptive with Ex-Post Facto design and statistic population included all of seafarers of National Iranian Tanker Company in spring of 2015 that were 2400 and also all of male onshore staffs of National Iranian Tanker Company in spring of 2015 were 420 that among them, 150 seafarers were selected by random sampling and 240 onshore staffs were selected through targeted sampling. Research tools were Positive Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire of Ingram & Wisnicki (1988), Job Satisfaction Inventory of Smith, Kendall & Hulin (1969) and Quality of Worklife Questionnaire of Timossi, Pedroso, Francisco & Pilatti (2008). Data analysis by multivariate analysis of variance showed that seafarers obtained higher mean score on job satisfaction than onshore staffs. But, there was no significant difference between positive thinking and quality of work life of seafarers and onshore staffs. The results showed that job satisfaction in addition to quality of work life and thinking styles as positive-thinking is affected by many factors, sich as benefits and salary. So effective factors on job satisfaction, such as salaries and benefits could be targeted in increasing job satisfaction of staffs at hard jobs like seafaring.

Educational- career construction as construct composed of two dimensions of career adaptability and vocational development can play effective role in first grade high school students’ career decision making readiness. In order to determine utility of emotional intelligence in educational- career construction assessment, relationship between emotional intelligence and dimensions of educational-career construction and incremental validity of emotional intelligence in predicting vocational development was examined by selecting random convenience sample of 514 first grade high school students (240 boys, 274 girls). The Pearson's correlations showed considerable positive relations between components and dimensions of emotional intelligence and dimensions of educational-career construction.The Canonical correlation showed 5 canonical variates in relationship between emotional intelligence and dimensions of educational- career construction. The Hierarchical regression showed that emotional intelligence can predict vocational development beyond demographics and career adaptability (ΔR2=0.07, P<0.001) .This study added supports of utility of emotional intelligence in educational-career construction counseling.

The present research aimed to investigate relationship of self-efficacy and resiliency with efficacy of high schools managers in Kermanshah city. This research according to its aim is applied, and in term of descriptive is correlation type. The statistical society of research were about all of the high schools managers of ministry of education, branch of Kermanshah city 44 men managers and 50 women managers in scholastic 2014 – 2015, that according to the category of random sampling method, model by volume of 76 individuals are selection. For data collection, the researcher has been used questionnaires of general self-effectiveness of Sherer and collaborators (1982), Konner and Davidson's resiliency (2003), and Parson's efficacy. In order to reliability of questionnaires of research, the researcher has been used alpha Cronbach method that for self-effectiveness, resiliency, and efficacy, respectively 87%, 91%, 95% obtained. Also, for analysis of data, the researcher have been used the Pierson's coefficient of correlation and Regression's analysis Method. The results of regression analysis show that the variables of self-effectiveness and resiliency have the ability to forecasting of efficacy variable. Also the results show that there are significant relationship between selfeffectiveness and resiliency with efficacy But the effect was not significant between male and female managers. It is proposed to increase the effectiveness of executive education organization of events such as workshops and the use of psychologists and counselors to strengthen selfefficacy and resilience of action.