Validity and reliability evidence of the psychological capital questionnaire-12 in a sample of Mexican workers

作者：Soraya Santana-Cárdenas, João Viseu, María Inmaculada López Núñez, Saul Neves de Jesús · 发表于：Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 年份：2018 · 被引用次数：14 · 研究领域：Resilience and Mental Health、Stress and Burnout Research、Emotional Intelligence and Performance

Psychological capital is a construct that is included in the positive organizational behavior framework, which is based on positive psychology principles. This concept is composed by four dimensions, self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism, which have a synergistic action. The aim of this study was to report the psychometric properties of one of the measures of psychological capital, the Psychological Capital Questionnaire-12 (PCQ-12), in a sample of 396 Mexican workers. This instruments' factor structure was analyzed through a confirmatory factor analysis. Reliability was assessed with the Cronbach's Alpha and Composite Reliability coefficients. Furthermore, convergent and discriminant validity were also evaluated. Based on three concurrent models, it was observed that the model which possessed a better fit was composed by four-correlated factors. The implications of these results are discussed, and recommendations are provided for future researches. This paper, which presents a different factor structure than the usual of psychological capital, suggests that cultural differences may play a crucial role on the way the assessed construct behaves.