Psychological capital as predictor of psychological well-being among doctors

Pages: 389-391
Nazia Amin (Department of Psychology, Research Scholar, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir)
Shawkat Ahmad Shah (Department of Psychology, Research Scholar, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir)

Positive psychology has been receiving great importance because of its stress management nature. The present study also derives some variables from the same because employees working in health care services are overlaid by workload, time pressure, sleep deprivation, irregular meals, staff conflicts and role conflicts, etc. Therefore, the aim of present research study is to investigate whether psychological Capital (PsyCap) contributes to the variance in Psychological well-being among Post Graduate doctors working in Government Medical College (GMC), Srinagar, Kashmir. The study was conducted on 100 post graduate doctors’including 55 male and 45female doctors within the age range from 24 to 45 years. The PsyCap was assessed by Luthans, Avolio and Avey’s (2007) 12 items scale. It further consists of four subscales, i.e., Hope, Self Efficacy, Resilience and Optimism. To assess Psychological Well-being the Ryff and Keye’s Psychological Well-being Scale (1995) of 18 items was used. It measures six dimensions of Psychological Well-being. The results revealed that PsyCap contributes12% to the variance in psychological wellbeing among Post Graduate doctors working in Government medical College, Srinagar, Kashmir. Further, the study also revealed that there is no difference in PsyCap as well as in psychological wellbeing so far as gender is concerned