چکیده:
The present study set to investigate the effect of psychological capital of accounting students on their work life quality and job performance.An applied,cross-sectional, descriptive,and correlational study was conducted, and qualitative datawere gathered.The study population includedMAaccounting students in Yazd and Kermanshah provinces (2015), who were also busy in the accounting profession.Due to the high population size, the study sample was determined using Cochran formula and simple random sampling method. Accordingly, 284 individuals were selected.Field data collection, library, and questionnaires were used fordata collection.A standard questionnaire, reliability of which was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha (0.882),was used.Of questionnaires distributed, 273 questionnaires were usable in the statistical analysis.SPSS 16 software and structural equation modeling software, Smart PLS 2, were usedfor data analysis.The results indicated a significant influence ofaccounting students’ psychological capital on their quality of work life and job performance.The results showed that three components of psychological capital (hope, efficacy, and resistance) had a significant impact on accounting students’quality ofwork life; however,optimism component had no significant effect on accounting students’ quality of work life.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The effect of psychological capital of accounting students on the quality of their working life Najaf Fathi 1&2 Forough Heirani3* and Nasim Shahmoradi4 1department of Accounting, Yazd science and research branch, Islamic Azad university, Yazd, Iran.
2016 Published 20 May. 2016 ABSTRACT The present study set to investigate the effect of psychological capital of accounting students on their work life quality and job performance.
The results indicated a significant influence ofaccounting students’ psychological capital on their quality of work life and job performance.
The results showed that three components of psychological capital (hope, efficacy, and resistance) had a significant impact on accounting students’quality ofwork life; however,optimism component had no significant effect on accounting students’ quality of work life.
Keyword: Psychological capital Quality of work life Job performance * Corresponding author: Heirani Peer review under responsibility of UCT Journal of Management and Accounting Studies INTRODUCTION Today, organizational success depends directly on the use of human resources, based on applied behavioral sciences.
Job appealis effective,as a mediator,on the relationship between accounting students’ psychological capital and quality of work life.
The main hypothesis Psychological capital is effective on accounting students’ quality of work life.
2. According to the results (1) and the first main hypothesis test result,psychological capital variable had a significant effect on accounting students’ quality of work life.
8. According to the seventh hypothesis test, job appeal variable, as a mediator, had a significant impact on the relationship between accounting students’ psychological capital and quality of work life.