Jakub Procházka from the Department of Corporate Economy together with his colleagues from the Faculty of Social Studies improved the internationally used Compound Psychological Capital Scale and introduced the improvement in a scholarly article. Positive psychological capital helps people better cope with stress at work and improve their work performance.
Dr. Procházka is the head of the Department of Corporate Economy FEA MU and together with academics from the Department of Psychology FSS MU is a member of a research team examining psychological capital. Their article Measuring psychological capital: Revision of the Compound Psychological Capital Scale (CPC-12) was published in the scholarly journal Plos One.
Psychological capital is comprised of resources like hope, optimism, self-efficacy, or personal resilience. If the employees’ psychological capital is sufficient, they can manage stress situations better and their performance on the job and willingness to contribute beyond their responsibilities are higher. The researchers performed an analysis of newly collected data and a secondary analysis of the data from the original German study. The article of the FEA and FSS experts identified an imperfection in the original questionnaire, namely in the measurement of resilience. The study proposes a modification to the original questionnaire and brings evidence that the new questionnaire more aptly conforms to the theory and is more accurate.
The article was written within the framework of a project supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR). Besides Dr. Procházka from the FEA, and Ludmila Dudášová and Martin Vaculík from the FSS, the German professor Timo Lorenz, the author of the original Compound Psychological Capital Scale, participated in the project.
Congratulations to Dr. Procházka and all the other researchers contributing to the article.
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