Abstract:

This work was done with the aim of determining the relationship between psychological capital and job satisfaction in healthcare workers, which are an important part of the service sector, and identifying the levels of psychological capital of healthcare workers. The study was conducted in a state hospital based on data from 180 health workers. As data collection tools developed by Luthans vd., (2007) with the psychological capital scale of the work of adaptation to Turkish by Hard and Print (2012) and the work of adaptation to Turkish by Hackman and Oldman (1975) business characteristics survey, the work of adaptation to Turkish by Print and Print (2009) has been used, the work satisfaction scale. The analysis of data has applied number-percent calculation, frequency, t test, one-way variance analysis and Pearson correlation analysis methods. This study also determined that there is a positive level of meaningful relationship between psychic capital and business satisfaction. The psychological capital score of participants was high compared to literature. It is also found that demographic variables have a statistically significant difference between gender, age, time of work in the institution in which they are and the total professional year and the levels of psychological capital.

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