The Relationship of Psychological Hardiness with Work Holism

Ardashiri, Payam; Hasanvand, Banafshe; Pour, Sohrab Hassan

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Background and Aim: Present research intends to investigate relationship of psychological hardiness with work holism among high school teachers. Methods: The under study society includes all male and female high school teacher in Ghorveh city in the academic year 2012-2013. Using simple random sampling method, a sample size of 100 male and female teachers was selected. To collect data, Kobassa Psychological Hardiness Questionnaire and Aghabeigi Workaholics Questionnaire were employed. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (t-test and regression analysis) were used. Results: The findings indicated that there is negative and significant relationship between the variables psychological hardiness and work holism. In addition, there is association between gender and psychological hardiness and between gender and work holism, also the constituents of psychological hardiness (commitment, control and challenge) are able to predict work holism.

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International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (Volume 5)

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1-9

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https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.5.1

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P. Ardashiri et al., "The Relationship of Psychological Hardiness with Work Holism", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 5, pp. 1-9, 2013

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September 2013

Authors:

Payam Ardashiri, Banafshe Hasanvand, Sohrab Hassan Pour

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Gender, Psychological Hardiness, Work Holism

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