Authors : Naser Seifolahi and Ghaffar Karimianpour
Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of psychological capital on the relationship between the spiritual intelligence and job burnout among the staff at the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili. With regard to the optimal sampling volume for the structural equation modeling (125), the researcher conveniently selected a sample 183 individuals in this study. The King’s Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory in 2008, the Luthans’s Psychological Capital Questionnaire in 2008 and the Maslach Burnout Inventory in 1999 were used to collect the data. The content validity of the instruments was approved and their reliability was reported to be 0.89, 0.85 and 0.76, respectively. The AMOS Software was used for the process of analyzing the data. The results indicated that there was a significant negative relationship between the spiritual intelligence and the job burnout. Moreover, a significant negative relationship was observed between the psychological capital and the job burnout among the staff. Ultimately, the results revealed that the spiritual intelligence could affect the job burnout among the employees through the psychological capital.
Naser Seifolahi and Ghaffar Karimianpour, 2016. The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Job Burnout. International Business Management, 10: 6470-6476.