Abstract
This study, which investigated the relationship between teachers’ professional life qualities and positive psychological capital, was designed in a relational screening pattern in the quantitative research method. Teachers, who worked in primary, secondary and high school in Erzincan city centre of Turkey in 2014-2015 academic year, participated in the research. The study group consisted of totally 182 teachers selected by random sampling method from the research field. The research data were collected through two different scales as “Professional Life Quality” and “Positive Psychological Capital”. The obtained data were subjected to frequency, arithmetic mean, and correlation and regression analysis with SPSS 22 program. According to the results obtained from the research, it was found out that the positive psychological capital levels and quality of professional lives of teachers were high. According to the results of the study, it was noticed that there was a significant positive correlation between the teachers’ professional life qualities and positive psychological capital levels. Another result obtained from the research was that teachers’ professional life qualities were a significant predictor on their positive psychological capitals.
Highlights
Today, the fact that the most important element determining the organizational success in the management understanding of organizations is the human resource is accepted by the administrative stages of the management scientists and organizations
According to the findings obtained in terms of the sub-dimensions of professional life quality levels of teachers, it was found out that they mostly agreed with the results of the “democratic environment” sub-dimension
In a study carried out by Keser (2013) related to the school principals, it was found out that the psychological capitals of the school principals were found to be high. Another result found in the research was that the “confidence” sub-dimension had the highest average compared with the other sub-dimensions in terms of teachers’ positive psychological capital
Summary
The fact that the most important element determining the organizational success in the management understanding of organizations is the human resource is accepted by the administrative stages of the management scientists and organizations. Considering this fact, the professional environment of the human resource, the quality of work, the psychological, spiritual and academic supports provided to the employees has been the most discussed and researched topic at present. As the employees spend a large part of their time in their professional environments, factors such as the nature of the profession, the suitability of the professional environment, and the pleasure of the employee are the antagonistic factors that determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the employees All these facts revealed the concept of professional life quality. It can be claimed that, in addition to the high professional life quality in the organizational life of employees, employee happiness may affect many factors such as their motivations for the goals and targets and employees’ associative loyalty
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