The Development and Resulting Performance Impact of Positive Psychological Capital.

By Fred Luthans, James Avey, Bruce J. Avolio, Suzanne J. Peterson. 2010

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

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Searching for resilience: the impact of employee-level and entrepreneur-level resilience on firm performance in small family firms (2020, positive): “…the term has been used to describe the ability of a firm’s employees to bounce back, and even succeed, in the face of problems and adversity (Luthans et al. 2010; Shin et al. 2012), given that actions and interactions among individuals can build organisational resilience (Morgeson and…”
Impact of authentic leadership on performance: Role of followers' positive psychological capital and relational processes (2014, background): “It is also open to development through short training interventions (including delivered online; Luthans, Avey, & Patera, 2008; Luthans et al., 2010) with causal impact on performance (Luthans et al.”
Contagion effect of global leaders' positive psychological capital on followers: does distance and quality of relationship matter? (2013, background): “As indicated, previous research has indicated that PsyCap can be developed and have causal impact on performance (Luthans et al. 2010; Peterson, Luthans, Avolio, Walumbwa and Zhang 2011).”
Effects of Psychological Capital on Mental Health and Substance Abuse (2015, background): “Our findings provide some preliminary evidence that interventions aimed at improving PsyCap (Luthans et al., 2008; Luthans et al., 2010; Luthans, Youssef, et al., 2007) are likely to have some health-related benefits that have not been considered before.”
The Impact of Business School Students’ Psychological Capital on Academic Performance (2012, background): “More recently, Luthans, Avey, Avolio, and Peterson ( 2010 ) demonstrated the ability to develop PsyCap in a study of undergraduate business students and in a second study of practicing business managers.”
How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees’ Job Performance: The Mediating Roles of Goal Congruence and Psychological Capital (2014, background): “PsyCap represents an important psychological resource in the form of hope, optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy (Gooty et al. 2009; Luthans et al. 2010), which provides the necessary fuel to perform successfully.”
How Much Do We Really Know About Employee Resilience? (2016, methodology): “To evaluate the in-person version of the program, Luthans et al. (2010) obtained self-assessments of PsyCap and employee job performance before and after the intervention and also had managers rate the employee’s performance a week before and after the intervention.”
Psychological capital: internal and external validity of the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ-24) on a South African sample (2013, background): “…components on work engagement could be beneficial in informing intervention strategies directed at increasing work engagement, as PsyCap has been shown to be state-like (e.g. Avey, Luthans & Youssef, 2010) and open to change and development (e.g. Luthans, Avey & Patera, 2008; Luthans et al., 2010).”