Measuring Psychological Capital: Construction and Validation of the Compound PsyCap Scale (CPC-12)

With the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) being the standard measure to assess psychological capital (PsyCap) in the context of organizations, this paper aims to broaden this domain-specific approach by introducing a measure with universal claim. Two studies were conducted to create and val...

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Autores principales: Lorenz, Timo, Beer, Clemens, Pütz, Jan, Heinitz, Kathrin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27035437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152892
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description With the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) being the standard measure to assess psychological capital (PsyCap) in the context of organizations, this paper aims to broaden this domain-specific approach by introducing a measure with universal claim. Two studies were conducted to create and validate a German self-report scale (CPC-12) measuring PsyCap. We performed confirmatory factor analyses and correlations with other positive psychological constructs on the data of two German samples (N(1) = 321; N(2) = 202). The twelve-item CPC-12 exhibits the anticipated factorial structure with a very good model fit and associations to other constructs concur with previous findings with other measures of PsyCap.
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spelling pubmed-48179572016-04-19 Measuring Psychological Capital: Construction and Validation of the Compound PsyCap Scale (CPC-12) Lorenz, Timo Beer, Clemens Pütz, Jan Heinitz, Kathrin PLoS One Research Article With the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) being the standard measure to assess psychological capital (PsyCap) in the context of organizations, this paper aims to broaden this domain-specific approach by introducing a measure with universal claim. Two studies were conducted to create and validate a German self-report scale (CPC-12) measuring PsyCap. We performed confirmatory factor analyses and correlations with other positive psychological constructs on the data of two German samples (N(1) = 321; N(2) = 202). The twelve-item CPC-12 exhibits the anticipated factorial structure with a very good model fit and associations to other constructs concur with previous findings with other measures of PsyCap. Public Library of Science 2016-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4817957/ /pubmed/27035437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152892 Text en © 2016 Lorenz et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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