Open AccessOccupational Stress and Psychological Well-Being: The Role of Psychological Capital
Author(s) -
Farah Shazlin Johari
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of business and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2590-3721
DOI - 10.26666/rmp.ijbm.2019.1.3
Subject(s) - positive psychological capital , occupational stress , psychology , psychological intervention , productivity , context (archaeology) , capital (architecture) , health care , psychological contract , mental health , creativity , social psychology , applied psychology , economic growth , psychotherapist , psychiatry , economics , history , archaeology , paleontology , biology
Occupational stress has become an important issue in many organizations, since it significantly results in unfavorable effects on both employees and businesses including infectious diseases, malpractice, creativity, productivity and economic loss. Even though, there were plethora of research confirm the negative effect of occupational stress on employees’ psychological well-being, however, there were limited of research highlighted in the field of health care industry involving health care professionals. Furthermore, there is dearth of knowledge in the literatures focusing on mediating effect on these relationships, since there has been a rise of several interventions to strengthen the relationship between occupational stress and psychological well-being. Thus, this present study is intended to determine the relationship between occupational stress, psychological well-being and psychological capital. In addition, this study also intended to propose the role of psychological capital as mediator between these relationships. Since, the study is still at its infancy stage in the health care context, future research could integrate to expand this study especially in practical perspectives, to benefit both employees and organizations.