The Effect of Primary School Teachers’ Quality of Work Life on the Self-Efficacy with the Mediation of Organizational Climate

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of quality of work life on self-efficacy of primary school teachers with the mediating role of organizational climate. This study was applied in terms of purpose and structural equation correlation in terms of research method. The target population of the study was all elementary school teachers in Iranshahr, 897 subject (494 male and 403 female). The sample size was estimated to be 367 subject (202 male and 165 female) based on the Singh and Masuku’s sample size determination table. Stratified random sampling and convenience sampling were used. Three questionnaires of quality of work life by Mirkamali and Narenji (2008); teacher self-efficacy questionnaire by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk-Hoy (2001), and Organizational Climate Questionnaire by Halpin and Croft (2000) were used to collect data. To analyze the data were used descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics such as Pearson's correlation coefficient test and structural equation model with using SPSS27 and PLS software. The findings based on the t-statistic test equal to 6.92 and the path coefficient equal to 0.60 indicate that the quality of work life has a positive effect on teachers' self-efficacy with the mediation of organizational climate. In this regard, the results of the Sobel test equal to 12.33 showed that the effect of the quality of work life on teachers' self-efficacy increases with the mediation of organizational climate. Recommended educational organizations should be sensitive to improving the quality of work life of teachers,