Psychology capital is a mediator between self-criticism and job satisfaction

• Main Authors: Anand Prabhu, Chia, Camy Yi Zhen, Loh, Jun Xiang
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43691
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper investigates how Self-criticism affects Job satisfaction and explores the mechanism behind this link – Psychology Capital (which consists of Optimism, Resilience, Hope and Self-efficacy). Asians are self-critical by nature and thus, it is important to examine how Self-criticism affects both Psychological Capital and Job satisfaction. This paper also looks at how Psychological Capital can be reduced to a simpler construct when used on Asian samples. One hundred and fifty-seven participants took part in this study. The results show that Self-criticism led to lower Job satisfaction with Psychological Capital acting as a partial mediator. In addition, it was found that Psychological Capital could potentially be reduced to having only three components when being used on Asians – Resilience, Hope and Self-efficacy .