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psychological capital: a standalone construct

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psychologicalcapital1 CONSTRUCTPsyCap (HERO)LUTHANS · HERO · PCQ-24

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Positive organizational behavior

an individual's positive psychological state made of four capacities: hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism.

An individual's positive psychological state of development, defined by Luthans, Youssef, and Avolio as a higher-order core construct made of four first-order capacities: hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism, abbreviated HERO. Luthans, Avolio, Avey, and Norman built the Psychological Capital Questionnaire in 2007, twenty-four items with six for each capacity, and reported that the composite predicted supervisor-rated performance and job satisfaction better than any single capacity alone. Luthans and colleagues present psychological capital as state-like rather than trait-like, meaning it is open to development through short interventions, and this developability is the claim that separates it from personality. The word capital is chosen deliberately, to argue that a person's positive psychological resources are an investable asset in the way economists treat skills and sociologists treat relationships.[1][2]

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An individual's positive psychological state
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Positioned as state-like and developable, not a fixed trait
Measured by
PCQ-24: twenty-four Likert items across hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism, scored as one composite
Scales indexed for this construct
  • Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ-24)Luthans, F., Avolio, B. J., Avey, J. B., & Norman, S. M., 2007 · hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism as one higher-order state24 items

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social capital6 fields · 13 citationsjingle · one name, six constructsresilience6 fields · 9 citationsjingle · one name, six constructsself-efficacy5 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, five constructscapital2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

  1. Luthans, F., Avolio, B. J., Avey, J. B., & Norman, S. M. (2007). Positive psychological capital: Measurement and relationship with performance and satisfaction. Personnel Psychology, 60(3), 541–572. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2007.00083.x
  2. Luthans, F., Youssef, C. M., & Avolio, B. J. (2007). Psychological capital: Developing the human competitive edge. Oxford University Press.

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