Middle Eastern Journal of Disability Studies

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Samani S, Mehri Nejad S A. Prediction of Job Satisfaction and Burnout among Criminal Judge Based on Psychological Capital. MEJDS 2018; 8 :99-99
URL: http://jdisabilstud.org/article-1-1027-en.html

Background & Objective: As a widely regarded positive psychology, concept, and psychological capital cause flexibility. Judging due to the high-stress levels and critical decision making requires high self-control over feelings. Psychological capital includes four components of resilience, self-efficacy, optimism, and hopefulness, which are linked to the reduction of stress and protects people from pressures, so causes improved job satisfaction, organizational performance, and efficiency. This study objective was to predict the state of satisfaction and burnout of the criminal judges of the country based on their psychological capital.
Methods: The present study was performed using a survey-correlational method. As a statistical sample, 210 criminal judges from Iran provinces selected via convenient sampling. Questionnaires collected from 23 judges omitted from data analysis stage due to incompleteness. The surveys developed by Luthans (2007), Spector (1985), and Maslach (1981) were utilized to evaluate psychological capital, job satisfaction, and job burnout, respectively. In this study, we used indicators of descriptive statics, and statistical analysis like Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, spearman rank correlation coefficient and multivariate linear regression (α=0.05).
Results: Results from correlation analysis using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient showed that all of the psychological capital components, (self-efficacy (p<0.001, r=0.336), hopefulness (p<0.001, r=0.358), resilient (p<0.001, r=0.307), and optimism (p=0.150, r=0.178)) had a direct correlation with judges’ job satisfaction. In the meantime, hopefulness had the most, and optimism had the least correlation with job satisfaction. Also, all components of the psychological capital self-efficacy (p=0.011, r=0.187), hopefulness (p<0.001, r=0.326), resilient (p<0.001, r=0.252), optimism (p=0.008, r=0.192) showed meaningful reverse correlation with judges’ job burnout. In a simultaneous review of the psychological capital components, self-efficacy (p<0.001) and hopefulness (p=0.030) had a direct and meaningful relationship with criminal judges’ job satisfaction and other components did not have any meaningful relation and had been omitted from the model. Also in Simultaneous review of components of psychological capital among criminal judges, hopefulness (p<0.001) can predict job burnout in judges, and other components did not show any meaningful relationship and had been omitted from the model.
Conclusion: Findings of this study indicate that paying attention to programs that directly and indirectly leads to an increase in the components of the psychological capital keeps high-stressed criminal judges away from burnout and upgrades their job satisfaction. Among the components of psychological capital, hope is more effective than other parts; therefore when employing criminal judges, it can be chosen more conveniently by measuring this component and other ones of psychological capital and helps to hire people as criminal judges who have higher levels of hope.