teachers’ academic optimism and organizational citizenship behavior

background: academic optimism about teachers is a new construct. the objective of this study was investigation of primary school teachers' academic optimism and organizational citizenship behavior in shiraz city. methods: the method of this study was descriptive and correlational study. the population of this study were all teachers (men and women) working in the 1391-1392 school year in public schools in shiraz city. the multi-stage cluster sampling method was used to selection of 200 of teachers. in total, sample size was reduced to 124 teachers. in this study 6 questionnaires were used that included: academic optimism (trust in students and parents, teachers self-efficacy, academic emphasis); organizational citizenship behavior; dispositional optimism; and student-centered beliefs and practice. findings: the results showed that there were positive and significance relationships between the academic optimism, citizenship behavior, dispositional optimism, and student-centered beliefs and practice is established. in addition, there was an insignificant difference in male and female teachers’ optimism. conclusion: more teachers’ optimistic attitudes towards life will increases scientific optimism. student-centered activities will increase scientific optimism among teachers. teachers’ academic optimism was able to predict their organizational behavior. the results of path analysis showed that the model fits the data very well.