The Role of Psychological Capital on the Ability to Solve Social Problems Through Mediation Intellectual Preferences

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the role of psychological capital on solving social problems through mediation role of intellectual preferences. The methodology was descriptive-correlational, and the sample size was based on Cochran's formula, 384 people according to the number of the population. The subjects were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling approach within each cluster by simple random sampling method. The social problem-solving inventory, psychological capital questionnaire, and intellectual preferences questionnaire were used in this study to collect data. According to the results, psychological capital can directly explains changes in social problem-solving. Also, psychological capital indirectly affects the variable of ability to solve social problems through the mediating variable of intellectual preferences which has the highest impact in this model. On the other hand, the results demonstrated that the selected model fits the data. Therefore, psychological capital as a desirable psychological capacity and using intellectual preferences, affect the ability to find solutions and facilitates it.

Keywords

• social problem solving
• psychological capital
• intellectual preferences