Building on the positives: A psychometric review and critical analysis of the construct of Psychological Capital

By S. Dawkins, Angela J. Martin, Jenn Scott, K. Sanderson. 2013

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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How leader humility helps teams to be humbler, psychologically stronger, and more effective: a moderated mediation model (2017, background): “” PsyCapmay thus be considered a core, higher-order construct (Avey et al., 2011; Dawkins et al., 2013) that builds upon the four dimensions and represents “one's positive appraisal of circumstances and probability for success based on motivated effort and perseverance” [emphasis in the original] (L”
Testing a dynamic model of the impact of psychological capital on work engagement and job performance (2018, background): “…of 51 studies by Avey et al., 2011; Luthans, Avolio, Avey and Norman, 2007; Luthans, Youssef and Avolio, 2007 and comprehensive reviews by Dawkins et al., 2013; Newman et al., 2014), and to be related to desired work attitudes, behaviors, and performance (see Avey et al., 2011; Luthans…”
Psychological capital: internal and external validity of the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ-24) on a South African sample (2013, background): “In most of these studies conducted in other countries, the PCQ-24 demonstrated fairly consistent psychometric properties with those reported by Luthans, Avolio, Avey & Norman (2007) (for a full review see Dawkins et al., 2013).”
Mindfulness at Work: Positive Affect, Hope, and Optimism Mediate the Relationship Between Dispositional Mindfulness, Work Engagement, and Well-Being (2015, unknown): “A recent review of the psychometric properties of this questionnaire (Dawkins et al. 2013) indicates issues with some of its items.”
Authoritarian leadership and employee creativity: The moderating role of psychological capital and the mediating role of fear and defensive silence (2018, background): “Indeed, empirical evidence has demonstrated significant increases in PsyCap through external influences such as interventions in as little as one to three hours of training (Dawkins et al., 2013; Luthans, Avey, Avolio, & Peterson, 2010; Luthans & Youssef, 2017), even if these training sessions happe”
Psychological capital and the startup capital–entrepreneurial success relationship (2016, methodology): “Psychometric data presented by Dawkins et al. (2013) show that this version of the PCQ has an overall reliability coefficient a of .88–.89.”