Investigating the Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction on the Perceived Organizational Health of Physical Education Teachers in Shushtar

The general purpose of this research was to investigate the mediating role of job satisfaction in the effect of emotional intelligence on the organizational health of physical education teachers in Shushtar. According to the set goals, the current research was applied and of a descriptive-survey type. The statistical population of this research consists of physical education teachers of Shushtar city (546 people), of which 225 people were selected as the research sample based on the Kerjesi and Morgan table by simple random drawing. In this research, library methods and field methods were used to collect data in this research. The data collection tools included questionnaires of personal characteristics and information (created by the researcher), emotional intelligence questionnaire of H. Weisinger and organizational health questionnaire of "Hoy et al." In this research, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. To analyze the data and test the research hypotheses, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the structural equation method, and the independent sample t-test are used with the help of SPSS and PLS software. In addition, α level is considered 0.05 for all tests. The results showed: emotional intelligence has a positive and significant effect on organizational health and job satisfaction.