The Relationship between Psychological Capital and Students’ Learning Empowerments: Testing the Mediation Role of Dynamic Interactions

This research aimed to investigate the relationships between psychological capital, learning empowerment, and dynamic interactions in students of Shahrood University of Medical Sciences. With regard to the ways data were collected, the present study is descriptive correlational and is specifically based on structural equitation modeling in which maximum likelihood estimation with adjusting skewness was used. The participants of this study consisted of students in Shahrood University of medical science, who were selected using stratified sampling method. In order to assess variables, standard questionnaires in the form of five-point Likert scale, including Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Luthans et al., 2007) Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire (Mishra & Spreitzer, 1997), and Perception of Social Interactions Scale (Glass, 1994) were distributed among 260 students. Content and construct validity of questionnaires were confirmed by several management and factor analysis experts. To analyze data from questionnaires, Kolmogorov- Smirnov test, one sample t-test and Pearson correlation structural equation model have been used. Findings showed that psychological capital, both directionally and indirectionally, plays key role in empowering learning of students through dynamic interactions. Also, it was determined that dynamic interactions have a meaningful, directional and positive correlation with learning empowerment in students. Furthermore, results indicated that main variables in this study were appropriate for studied samples.