The measure of positive psychological capital: evidence of factorial invariance in workers of different professions in João Pessoa-PB and Natal-RN
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https://doi.org/10.22289/2446-922X.V5N1A3Keywords:
Psychological capital, Employees, Psychological measurement, OrganizationsAbstract
The present study aims at verifying the consistency and invariance of the positive factorial psychological capital measurement in employees with different professions. The psychological capital construct concerns a factor of social-cognitive positivity that tries to check the employees’ life quality related to the development of affections and emotions, motivation and self-determination, emotional intelligence and well-being turned to the elaboration and implementation of protection mechanisms from the psychological capabilities for facing human and labor adversities in the work environment. This scale has been used in Brazil quite frequently for the assessment of the organizational behavior, and this is the reason why this research was aimed at 316 Brazilian employees from the cities of Natal and João Pessoa, Brazil, aged between 21 and 59 years old, mostly females and holding an economic income above R$ 4.000,00. They answered to the Positive Psychological Capital Scale (PPCS) and social-demographic data. The confirmatory analysis demonstrated that the psychometric indicators showed inconsistency and factorial invariance, confirming the tetra-factorial as the best factor structure in this independent construct of sample specificity.
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