Structural Relationships Among Perceived Organizational Support, Positive Psychological Capital, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention of Chinese Professors

The purpose of this study was to confirm the relationship between organizational support and turnover intention of Chinese university professors and to verify the mediating effect of positive psychological capital and job satisfaction. To this end, a survey was conducted on organizational support, positive psychological capital, job satisfaction, and turnover intention targeting university professors in 12 provinces, 1 autonomous district, and 3 direct cities in China. The survey distributed data in an online format using the Internet questionnaire, and 1,211 effective questionnaires were collected and used for the final analysis data. Structural equation analysis was performed using the SPSS 25.0 and Mplus 7.0 programs. The results of this study are as follows. First, it was found that university professors' organizational support, positive psychological capital, and job satisfaction had a direct effect on turnover intention. Second, in the relationship between organizational support and turnover intention of Chinese university professors, positive psychological capital was found to have a mediating effect. Third, it was found that job satisfaction had a mediating effect in the relationship between organizational support and turnover intention of Chinese university professors. Fourth, in the relationship between organizational support and turnover intention, positive psychological capital and job satisfaction have sequential mediating effects.