Relationship between Positive Psychological Capacities and Sense of Humour among Female Teachers of Iran

Sense of humor and positive psychological capacities as an important phenomenon in the field of positive psychology, especially in organizational science is an enterprise may be introduced. This study investigated the relationship between psychological capital and good feeling among the women teachers. To this end, this study used a descriptive – correlation approach carried on female teachers of Ardabil city in Iran. From this population, 80 women selected with multi-stage cluster sampling method and psychological capacity and sense of humor questionnaires carried on them. Data analyzed with Pearson correlation and multiple regression techniques. Results indicated that optimism, resilience and confidence have a significant relationship with a sense of humor, but the relationship between sense of humor and hope, was negligible. Another result was that resilience had a considerable positive relationship with all four factors of humor sense. Optimism related to humor and humor creation and confidence was associated only with humor creation. The hope, had not a great relationship with each of the four factors humor. Considering the relationship between psychological capacity and sense of humor, if the organization's managers focus on both increasing psychological capacity and a sense of humor in staff, its impact on work results will be considerably larger than when the focus is only on one of these two variables.