Investigating the relationship between religious beliefs and elementary teacher’s happiness in the working environment
Publish Year: 1394
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JR_EPR-1-2_019
تاریخ نمایه سازی: 26 اسفند 1394
Abstract:
Aim: This study was aimed at investigating the relationship between religious beliefs and elementary teacher’s happiness in the working environment. This was a descriptive‑correlation study. Methods: The population under study was consisted of all the elementary teachers of district 2 ofministry of education and training during the academic year of 2013–2014. Using Cochrane’s volume sampling, a number of 250 elementary teachers was chosen from the population of teachers (a number of 690 teachers). Two types of questionnaires were used to elicit data, the questionnaire of visionassessment (by Serajzadeh), and Oxford happiness (by Argyle). SPSS 19 was used for the both levels of descriptive (such as frequency, mean, percentage, and standard deviation) and inferential (such as Pearson correlation, multiple regression, and MANOVA) statistics. Result: The results of the studyshowed that there is a significant relationship between elementary teacher’s happiness and theirreligious beliefs (r = 0.241, P < 0.001). There also existed a significant relationship between faith (one of the aspects of religious beliefs) and happiness (r = 0.01, P < 0.05). The other significant relationships of the aspects of religious belief and happiness were for the outcome aspect (r = 0.034, P < 0.005),rite aspect (r = 0.01, P < 0.05), and the experimental aspect of religious beliefs (r = 0.017, P < 0.05). Conclusion: Result showed that there is no significant relationship between the rite aspect of religious belief and happiness based on gender, working experience, educational background/level, and type of school. In contrast, there is a significant relationship between religious beliefs and age
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Fatemeh Bahri Najafi
Department of Education, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
Ebrahim Mershah Jafari
Department of Education, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran