providing a structural model of social-emotional competence based on psychology capital with mediation of career motivation among primary school teachers

This study was conducted in order to provide a structural model of social-emotional competence based on psychological capital with the mediation of career motivation among primary teachers. the correlation method was applied in this cross-sectional research. the statistical population of the present study was consisted of all teachers who were teaching in the elementary schools of tehran in 2021-2022 and among them 350 people were selected by multi-stages cluster-sampling method. psychological capital (luthans, 2007), career motivation (robinson, 2004) and social-emotional competence (boyatzis, 2007) methods were applied which had acceptable validity and reliability. spss-v23 and lisrel-v7.8 software were applied in order to analyze the data. structural equation modeling was used to respond to the research hypotheses. the research findings suggested that psychological capital has a direct effect on social-emotional competencies of elementary teachers (p<0.05). psychological capital has an indirect effect on social-emotional competencies of primary teachers (p<0.05). also, the results showed that the indirect effect of psychological capital along with social-emotional competencies mediated by career motivation was confirmed by 95% confidence. therefore, social-emotional competencies can play a better role in increasing their career motivation through making psychological capital among teachers.