The Influence Of Creativity And Self- Esteem On Mental Health And Job Performance In Noth Tehran Among Female Teachers From Girl’s School
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Date
2015-12
Authors
Harati, Saba
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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This study focuses on the influence of creativity and self-esteem on mental health and job performance among female teachers in Tehran, Iran. In order to implement a character education program in the classroom, teachers need to feel efficacious, understand the strategies and skills of character education, and have professional development experience in the subject. This study is also a step up in the effort of connecting teacher’s creativity, and self-esteem on mental health and job performance to development of education implementation with a goal of contributing to training and equipping future teachers for character education. These theories related to mental health included Humanism (2002), Freud (1979) and Ellis (1983). The main theories in job performance were Hunt (1999) theory and Bozorgmard (1993) theory. In looking at creativity the important theories comprised Psychoanalysis and Humanism theories. Lastly the self-esteem is derived from two main theories namely Sullivan (2006), Horney theory and Adler theory. Referring to research methodology, this study utilized the correlation quantitative approach, that to answer the research questions. The participants were comprised of a randomized sampling of Iranian female teachers who had been working in girl’s school in North of Tehran. The participants in the study consisted of 280 female teachers who responded to the survey questionnaire. The survey was employed to rate the teachers’ self-esteem for character teaching, investigate their current knowledge level of character education strategies and skills, rate their perception of professional development on character teaching, and rate their mental-health and job performance. Data was collected from certified high school teachers and analyses using correlation statistics such as frequency distributions and ANOVA. Findings from this study showed that teachers who understand their self-esteem and have had high self-esteem and were more creative so they were more likely to implement character education strategies and skills into the classroom.
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Teacher’s creativity , Job performance among female teachers in Tehran