THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESENCE OF MEANING IN LIFE AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL

“Meaning in life” is one of the most important concept in management acquired from positive psychology. Studies have shown that individuals who found meaning in life are better in terms of mental and physical health. This means for management discipline that having happier and more energetic personnel. In a similar vein psychological capital is another important concept in management acquired from positive psychologhy. In this context we wonder if a personel who found presence of meaning in life ,does it help to enhance their self-efficiacy,hope,optimism and resilience states of psychological capital.This question is the inception point of study. The universe of this study are personnels working in public transport sector in İstanbul European Side, in 2019. The sample of this study are public personnels working in Esenler and Bakırköy. In order to collect data organizational psychological capital (Luthans, F., Bruce A., Avey, J. B. & Norman, S. M,2007) and “meaning in life questionnaire” (Steger, Frazier, Oishi and Kaler ,2006) scales were used. The results of regression and correlation analyses showed that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between the dimension of meaning in life namely “presence of meaning in life” and four dimensions (hope, resilience, optimism, self-efficiacy) of psychological capital. Thus we found out that the presence of meaning in life effects positively all dimensions of psychological capital.

Keywords

Presence of meaning in life, psychological capital, hope, resilience, optimism, self-efficacy