International Journal of Research in Education and Science (IJRES), cilt.7, sa.2, ss.525-544, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
In this research, which aims to investigate the organizational commitment and
psychological well-being of academicians, the quantitative research method was
employed. The research was designed in the relational screening model. The
sample of the research consisted of 132 academicians at the Erzincan Binali
Yıldırım University located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey in the
2018-2019 academic year. The research data were collected with the
organizational commitment and psychological well-being scales. The data of the
research were analyzed with the SPSS package program. The frequency, t-test,
one-way (ANOVA) analysis, correlation and regression analysis were applied in
the analysis of the data. According to the results reached in the study, the
psychological well-being levels of the academicians were found to be high, their
organizational commitment levels were at a moderate level. As it was analyzed
in terms of the sub-dimensions of the organizational commitment, the emotional
commitment of the academicians was found to be high, normative and the
attendance commitment was at a moderate level. According to another result
reached in the study, a positive significant relationship was encountered between
the psychological well-being levels of the academicians and their organizational
commitment levels. According to another result, the psychological well-being
levels of the academicians were a significant predictor on the emotional and
normative commitment, which are sub-dimensions of the organizational
commitment, but was not a significant predictor of the attendance commitment