Psychological capital moderating the relationship between self-criticism and job satisfaction.

• Main Authors: Chia, Camy Yi Zhen., Prabhu, Anand., Loh, Jun Xiang.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44794
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores a potential link between self-criticism and job satisfaction among Asians. Additionally, with the increasing popularity with positive organizational behavior, a recently developed higher-order construct – Psychological Capital (PsyCap)– was hypothesized to act as a moderator for the above-mentioned relationship. This paper further investigated whether PsyCap was a better moderator for the relationship between comparative self-criticism and job satisfaction as compared to internalized self-criticism and job satisfaction. Though results supported the relationship between self-criticism and job satisfaction, the proposed moderating relations were not. Some recommendations were also suggested to improve the methodology for future research.