The relationship between cognitive ability and enthusiasm with the mediation of self-efficacy of employees of sports and youth departments

Document Type : Original Research

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1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, Iran

2 Department of Sport Science, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Branch of Qom, Qom, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of the current research was to examine the relationship between cognitive ability and job enthusiasm and the mediation of job self-efficacy among employees of sports and youth departments in Qom province. The descriptive research method is correlation type. The research community was formed by all the employees of the sports and youth departments of Qom province in 2024, whose number was reported to be 356, of which 356 people were selected as a sample. The tools of this research included a cognitive ability questionnaire (Spritzer et al., 1997), an occupational self-efficacy questionnaire by Betz et al. (1996), and a job enthusiasm questionnaire by Salvanava et al. (2001). The research was investigated using structural equation modeling (SEM) and AMOS-23 software to evaluate the proposed model. The findings showed that the path coefficient of cognitive ability to job enthusiasm was β = 0.38, which was significant at the P = 0.05 level. The path coefficient of job self-efficacy to job enthusiasm was β = 0.47, and job ability to job self-efficacy was also β = 0.67, which was significant at P≥0.05 level. The results showed that occupational competence, mediating occupational self-efficacy, could predict occupational enthusiasm among employees of sports and youth departments in Qom province (β = 0.44, P < 0.05). It can be concluded that there is a relationship between cognitive ability and job enthusiasm with the mediation of job self-efficacy of the employees of the sports and youth departments of Qom province, and the model is a good fit.

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Functional Research in Sport Psychology
Volume 2, Issue 1
March 2025
Pages 58-77

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History

  • Receive Date: 27 January 2025
  • Revise Date: 09 March 2026
  • Accept Date: 17 March 2026
  • Publish Date: 30 March 2025

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