Job Passion And Its Relationship With Intellectual Competence Among Kindergarten Teachers

Abstract

The current research aims to identify job passion among kindergarten teachers, the differences in job passion based on years of service, and the intellectual competence of kindergarten teachers, the differences in intellectual competence based on years of service, and the relationship between job passion and intellectual competence among kindergarten teachers. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher developed a job passion scale and an intellectual competence scale, then analyzed the items of both scales logically and statistically to calculate their discriminatory power and validity coefficients. The researcher also verified the apparent validity and construct validity of the scales by applying them to a sample of (200) kindergarten teachers in Baghdad, specifically in the Rusafa side (first, second, and third) for the academic year (2024-2025), using a random method, and employed a descriptive approach. The psychometric properties were extracted from the validity and reliability of the two scales, and appropriate statistical methods were used to extract them and derive the results. Thus, the final version of the work passion scale consists of (27) items, and the final version of the intellectual competence scale consists of (18) items. The research reached the following results: Kindergarten teachers are characterized by work passion, there are statistically significant differences based on years of service for the two variables, kindergarten teachers are characterized by intellectual competence, and there is a significant positive relationship between work passion and intellectual competence.

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