Psychological Capital: Investing and Developing Positive Organizational Behavior

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Feeling lonely at work: investigating the consequences of unsatisfactory workplace relationships (2012, background): “Finally, a person low in psychological capital may also suffer from workplace loneliness due to low efficacy, hope, resilience and optimism in handling social relationships at work (Luthans et al. 2007).”
Psychological resilience, organizational resilience and life satisfaction in tourism firms: insights from the Canterbury earthquakes (2020, positive): “Both the ‘trait’ and ‘state’ perspectives imply that individuals can bounce back from physical and psychological stressors (Garcia-Dia et al., 2013; Luthans et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2008), which is the main perspective we use to conceptualize psychological resilience in this study.”
Does meaning‐making help during organizational change? Development and validation of a new scale (2009, background): “Personal resources are malleable, lower-order elements of personality that fluctuate (Gist and Mitchell, 1992; Luthans et al., 2007).”
Psychological capital and the startup capital–entrepreneurial success relationship (2016, background): “It is crucial to remember that optimism is the aspect of psychological capital that builds confidence in a positive outcome (Luthans et al. 2007; Fraser and Greene 2006; Trevelyan 2008); entrepreneurs become risk-takers because they expect positive tangible or intangible results (Hmieleski and…”