Measuring Psychological Capital: Construction and Validation of the Compound PsyCap Scale (CPC 12)
With the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) being the standard measure to assess psychological capital (PsyCap) in the context of organizations, this paper aims to broaden this domain specific approach by introducing a measure with universal claim. Two studies were conducted to create and validate a German self report scale (CPC 12) measuring PsyCap. We performed confirmatory factor analyses and correlations with other positive psychological constructs on the data of two German samples (N1 321; N2 202) The twelve item CPC 12 exhibits the anticipated factorial structure with a very good model fit and associations to other constructs concur with previous findings with other measures of PsyCap.
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