Positive Psychological Capital In Relation To Job Satisfaction: A Study of School Female Teachers

Psychological capital (Hope, Optimism, Self-Efficacy and Resilience) has shown to have performance impact within a variety of business organizations. There is a need to consider fully the impact of psychological capital with in educational organizations. 60 female teachers from Jaipur (mean age 30.4) were selected using the purposive sampling technique as subjects. Teachers are an essential link in the transmission of educational organizations. The relevance of job satisfaction is very crucial to the long term growth of any educational system around the world. The objective of this study was to assess Psychological capital in relation to job satisfaction of school female teachers. For this purpose, a sample of 60 female teachers with in the age range of 25 to 35 year was selected as subject from various public schools of Jaipur city (capital of Rajasthan). Pearson's Product moment Correlation was applied to study the intercorrelations between the variables. It was found that domains of Psychological capital, i.e. Hope, Optimism, Self-Efficacy and Resilience were significantly related to job satisfaction. This paper discusses some proposed relationships and provides some directions for future research.