Psychological capital and job satisfaction: A systematic review

Pages: 1713-1718
Kahkashsan Hashmi and Basheer Hasan (Department of School of Studies Psychology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur, Raipur, Chhattisgarh)

The objective of the present review was to examine the relationship between psychological capital, and job satisfaction on the basis of empirical studies. Literatures have been scanned from different scientific database, viz., j-Gate, JSTOR, science direct, INFLIBNET, PsychINFO, Springer, Scopus, Elsevier, and Google Scholar. The authors acknowledge 40 studies (full text) covering the period from 2007 to 2018 with certain inclusion criteria. Search terms were psychological capital, hope, optimism self efficacy, resiliency and job satisfaction. After examining different aspects of 40 empirical studies based on different organizations, different levels of employees and different countries this review article was prepared. When all the four dimensions taken together relationship between psychological capital and job satisfaction were reported by almost all the researchers. Same results were obtained when every single dimension of psychological capital was taken to consideration.