Role of Spiritual Competence and Subjective Well-Being in Organizational Commitment among Catholic College Teachers

According to Archdiocese of Bangalore Directory 2016-2017, there are 20 colleges and 46 pre-university Catholic colleges. Nevertheless, these colleges are in want of committed and credible teachers these days (Mathew, 2003). In the context of positive psychology, which claims that subjective wellbeing and spiritual competence could facilitate organizational commitment? The present study was carried out in order to explore the understanding of spiritual competence, subjective well-being that contributes to organizational commitment among teachers of Catholic colleges. One hundred and seventy-six college teachers from four Catholic colleges of Bangalore were requested to answer the self-report survey. Each participant completed a questionnaire, Organizational Commitment Scale (Allen and Meyer, 1990), Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, 1985), Positive Affective and Negative Affective Scale (Watson, Clark and Tellegen, 1988) and a Scale to Measure Spiritual Competence (Sing and Premrajan, 2007). Scale scores were computed by using SPSS-20 version. Correlation and multiple regression were carried out. Results revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between spiritual competence, subjective wellbeing organizational commitment, (affective, continuance and normative commitment). Results indicated that spiritual competence is a positive predictor of organizational commitment. This study extends research into intrinsic factors for teachers related to spiritual competence and subjective well being that increase organizational commitment.