Page No.63-71
Durba Pal and Priyanka Srivastava
National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, India
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Contemporary empirical research has highlighted on the significant role of the
accentuating impact of Positive Psychology in the workplace under the aegis of Positive
Organizational Behaviour (POB). Psychological Capital or PsyCap, a derivative of
POB, is a core construct comprising Hope, Optimism, Efficacy and Resiliency. In light
of this zeitgeist, the present study was an attempt to explore the nature of PsyCap
and its impact on Happiness among the Indian employees. Furthermore, the effect of
gender and employees’ job category as well as their interaction effect on PsyCap was
also investigated in the research study. Stratified Random Sampling of 100 employees
belonging to a pharmaceutical company located at Kanpur, U.P. was used to collect data.
Data were collected from both the male and female employees (including executives
as well as non-executives), by administering the adapted versions of the PsyCap
Questionnaire and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. After checking on the normality
of the data, analysis was done by computing percentages, and applying Factorial
(2×2) Anova and Simple Linear Regression. Results of the present study indicated
the existence of a high level of PsyCap among the employees. It further revealed
that the effect of gender and job category on PsyCap was insignificant and significant
respectively, whereas the interaction effect of both these variables on PsyCap was
statistically insignificant. Moreover, it was also found that PsyCap predicted significantly
the Happiness of the employees with respect to the present sample.
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