The mediating role of work-family conflict in the relationship between Psychological capital and career aspiration in working women

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Behnaz Sabet Ghadam ¹
• azadeh askari ²
• Mahmood heidari ³

¹ M. A. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Science and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Science and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Science and psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

10.30495/jzvj.2022.29880.3778

Abstract

Introduction: The aim of this study was to test the hypothetical model of work-family conflict mediation in the relationship between psychological capital and career aspiration in working women. The research method is correlational. The statistical population is included 227 women working in airlines in Tehran in 1400 and in It is the time of the corona virus outbreak.
Methods: The sampling method is available and the Lutans (2007) Psychological Capital Questionnaire, the revised Gregor and O brain Career aspiration Questionnaire (2016) and the Carlson et al.'s Family Conflict Questionnaire (1999) were used to collect information. Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software using Pearson correlation coefficient tests and structural equation modeling.
Findings: The results of statistical analysis of structural equations showed that the relationship between psychological capital and career aspiration in working women is partially mediated through work-family conflict. In the hypothetical model, it was shown that psychological capital directly explains 0.53 of the variance of career aspiration in working women. Also, psychological capital represents 0.48% of the variance of work-family conflict in women. and the predictor variables together predict 30.3% of the variance of career aspiration in working women.
Conclusion: Overall, the results show that psychological capital is likely to be mediated and can be said to be psychological capital through Family work conflict is related to career aspiration in working women.

Keywords

• career aspiration
• work-family conflict
• working women
• psychological capital

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