investigate the moderating role of psychological capital in violation of the psychological contract and job stress

Mohsen Golparvar¹ Fatemeh Mohamad Jafari Nasir²

1) Assistant Professor,Azad University of Khorasgan
2) MS Student, Azad University of Khorasgan

IOI Code : XYCG-AEABC
Publication : international conference of Management Elites(icme.ir)
Abstract :
    This study aims to investigate the moderating role of psychological capital in violation of the psychological contract and job stress. Among a population of 14,000 employees in Esfahan Mobarakeh Steel Company in the spring and summer of 2015, 298 were selected with accessible (available) manner. Research instruments consists of violation of the psychological contract questionnaire (Golparvar, 2014), psychological capital questionnaire (Nagyvyn et al., 2012) and Job Stress Questionnaire (Golparvar et al., 2012), respectively. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis. The results showed that there is a significant negative correlation between violation of the contract and psychological job stress; as well as between self-efficacy, hope and resiliency with violation of the psychological contract and also between self-efficacy, hope and resiliency with occupational stress. Though the results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that optimism, hope and resilience can adjust the relationship between job stress and violation of the psychological contract.

Keywords : violation of the psychological contract job stress psychological capital