The influence of instructor support, family support and psychological capital on the well-being of postgraduate students: a moderated mediation model

By I. Nielsen, Alexander Newman, Russell Smyth *, Giles Hirst, Barbara Heilemann. 2017

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The influence of instructor support, family support and psychological capital (PsyCap) on the subjective well-being of postgraduate business students, including whether PsyCap mediates the proposed support – well-being relationship were examined in this study. It was further investigated whether family support moderates this proposed mediated relationship. Direct positive relationships between instructor support and well-being, and between PsyCap and well-being were found. It was also found that PsyCap mediates the instructor support – well-being relationship. Finally, it was found that family support moderates this mediated relationship in such a way that the relationship is stronger among students with lower levels of family support.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Alberto Ortega-Maldonado
2. Russell Smyth *
3. Marisa Salanova
4. Giles Hirst
5. I. Nielsen
6. Alexander Newman

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Alexander Newman
2. Linna Xu
3. I. Nielsen
4. Alberto Ortega-Maldonado
5. Russell Smyth *
6. Marisa Salanova
7. Giles Hirst
8. Wilmar B. Schaufeli

In Social Psychology

1. Russell Smyth *
2. I. Nielsen
3. Alexander Newman
4. Alberto Ortega-Maldonado
5. Marisa Salanova
6. Giles Hirst
7. Linna Xu
8. Wilmar B. Schaufeli

Citations in the corpus

• Psychological capital and performance among undergraduate students: the role of meaning-focused coping and satisfaction (2018, background): “PsyCap positively predicted psychological well-being (Nielsen et al. 2016) and students’ satisfaction with life (Riolli, Savicki, and Richards 2012), and was related to future academic engagement (Siu, Bakker, and Jiang 2014), achievement and happiness (Datu and Valdez 2015; Datu, King, and Valdez…”
• Mediating Role of Psychological Capital in the Relationship between Social Support and Wellbeing of Refugees (2018, background): “In line with such assertions, prior work has highlighted a strong relationship between family support and PsyCap of postgraduate students at university (Nielsen et al., 2017).”
• Teacher–researcher role conflict and burnout among Chinese university teachers: a job demand-resources model perspective (2019, background): “Alternatively, support to alleviate negative emotions and cynicism should more often come from a specific person such as an instructor or coworker (Kossek et al. 2011; Nielsen et al. 2017).”