The influence of psychological-behavioral mechanisms of self-development (Self-regulation, Self-management, Self-leadership and self-directed learning) on human capital.

Document Type : Research Paper

10.22059/japr.2016.58768

Abstract

Self-development, one of the main concepts in the ideological foundations of Islam and research findings in recent decades and about development and human excellence on self-development have been strongly emphasized. Therefore this study has aimed to explain the influence of psychological-behavioral mechanisms of self-development on human capital. The research method was descriptive-correlational and data analysis method was SEM. The study`s population consisted of all the staff and faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Tehran University who were126 people from whom and by census methods, 118 valid questionnaires were collected. Self-development of human resources by four questionnaire of Abili and Mazari (2014), including Self-regulation questionnaire (α =0/94), Self-management (α =0/93), Self-leadership (α =0/96), Self-directed learning (α =0/95), and human capital questionnaire of Naderi (2011) with the reliability (α=0/95) were used to collect data. Results showed that self-development and human capital of Personnel was higher than the average. Self-development (r=0/80) has a significant positive correlation (p <0/01) with the human capital and through the dimensions of self-development, self-leadership, self-directed learning and self-regulation has had the ability to predict HC. Structural equation modeling showed that self-development has an impact on knowledge and cognitive skills (γ=0/89), metacognitive skills (γ=0/91) and emotion and communication competencies (γ =0/97).

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