A Cross-cultural Comparison of Perception of Professional Well-being by Iranian and Ukrainian Academic Staff

Abstract

The scientific literature on various aspects of psychological well-being in the organizational and professional space indicates the lack of a sufficient theoretical base and a unified understanding of professional well-being, as well as the need to clarify the content of this concept and the mechanisms of its formation. This study aims to theoretically and empirically support the model of needs and values as moderators of professional wellbeing based on a comparative analysis of perceptions of the professional well-being of academic staff in Ukraine and Iran. In accordance with the purpose of this study, a crosscultural comparison of perceptions of the professional well-being of Ukrainian and Iranian higher school teachers was conducted. Ninty people responded to the survey.Respondents were asked open-ended questions about their perception of professional well-being, followed by content analysis of the received answers and intergroup comparison of the results. Based on the conducted analysis, the assumption of statistically significant differences in perceptions of professional well-being in groups of respondents with different cultural affiliations, mediated by their value orientations, was confirmed.