Measuring Psychological Capital: Construction and Validation of the Compound PsyCap Scale (CPC-12) |
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Authors: | Timo Lorenz Clemens Beer Jan Pütz Kathrin Heinitz |
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Affiliation: | Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany;IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, ITALY |
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Abstract: | 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 (N1 = 321; N2 = 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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