THE EFFECTS OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL WITHIN THE FRAME OF FLOW ON VARIOUS VARIABLES


This study focuses on researching the antecedents of positive psychology which is a very highly researched area in the organizational behavior sciences since the last decade. By constructing a structural equation model these antecedents and their relations was researched. These antecedents are personality traits, psychological capital, performance, work satisfaction, psychological well being and flow in orderly. These variables were handled together in order to create an integrity among the variables and their effects to each other was tried to be examined. For the first time in this study, the effects of independent variables personality traits and psychological capital were examined on the same dependent variables simultaneously and the results were compared. In order to carry out this research 500 surveys have been collected from white collar workers from three different firms in Ankara Turkey. These surveys were subject to structural equation model analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. When the findings were examined, the effects of psychological capital dimensions and personality traits on employee well-being, job satisfaction and performance were observed. At the same time, it has been determined that, the optimal performance level, in other words the flow, has partial mediation role between psychological capital dimensions and personality traits with well-being, job satisfaction and performance. When all the findings are considered, it is determined that a model can be formed that examines the effects of positive psychology on the employees' well-being, job satisfaction and performance.


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Psychological Capital, Personality, Psychological Well Being, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Flow

Author : Tuğba YAŞİN
Number of pages: 2707-2735
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.36994
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Turkish Studies-Social Sciences
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