Abstract:

Psychological capital subject is an important area in the field of organizational behavior in which crucial works has been carried out recently. The psychological capital subject analyzed with hope, optimism, endurance and self-efficacy dimensions in literature has been analyzed with the same dimensions in this study too. The aim of the study is to define the relations between the subdimensions of the psychological capital; self-efficacy, hope, psychological endurance and optimism and the demographic features of gender, age, and working hours. The questionnaire forms which has been prepared with this aim have been applied to 311 employees working in the operations in the field of defense industry. Data has been analyzed with SPSS and AMOS programs. In the analysis, descriptive statistics, effective and reliability analysis, differences among the groups, comparison test, structural equation modeling, and hypothesis test have been applied. According to the analysis results it is found out that the psychological capital subdimensions of the employees  (self-efficacy, hope, psychological endurance and optimism) are changed in the context of age and the working hours in the organization and do not change in the context of gender.

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