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Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap) Meets Multitrait-Multimethod Analysis - Is PsyCap a Robust Predictor of Well-Being and Performance Controlling for Self-Report Bias?

A growing body of evidence suggests positive psychological capital (PsyCap) strongly predicts well-being and performance at work. However, most of this empirical research has used self-report survey designs, increasing the possibility of self-report …

Examining PERMA+4 and Work Role Performance beyond Self-Report Bias: Insights from Multitrait-Multimethod Analyses

Self-report and monomethod bias threaten the validity of contemporary workplace research. The current study used multitrait-multimethod analyses to examine the relationship between positive work and organizations constructs PERMA+4 and work role …

Global Perspectives on Positive Psychology

Designing Positive Organizational Psychology Interventions

Positive Organizational Psychology Intervention - Design and Evaluation delivers a concise description and synthesis of positive organizational psychology theory, empirical research, and evidence-based applications. Based on a thorough review of the …

Evaluating Positive Organizational Psychology Interventions

Positive Organizational Psychology Intervention - Design and Evaluation delivers a concise description and synthesis of positive organizational psychology theory, empirical research, and evidence-based applications. Based on a thorough review of the …

The Positive Functioning at Work Scale: Psychometric Assessment, Validation, and Measurement Invariance

The PERMA framework (Seligman 2018) presents five building blocks of well-being - positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. However, Seligman (2018) suggested the original five building blocks are highly predictive of …

A Brief Measure of Problematic Smartphone Use Among Youth: Psychometric Assessment Using Item Response Theory

The purpose of this study was to use item response theory to assess a brief measure of problematic smartphone use among youth, using the 2017-2018 California Student Tobacco Survey (CSTS) collected from 119,981 students who own a smartphone across …

Examining Building Blocks of Well-Being Beyond PERMA and Self-Report Bias

Recent debates in the Journal of Positive Psychology about the nature and usefulness of PERMA have created confusion about its contribution toward the understanding and prediction of well-being. This empirical study was designed to clarify several …

Advances in the Science of Positive Work and Organizations

Evaluating Employee Positive Functioning and Performance: A Positive Work and Organizations Approach

A Positive Work and Organizations (PWO) approach uses scientific methods to improve the understanding of individual, team, and organizational well-being and performance (Warren, et al., 2017). One area of inquiry within the PWO approach involves …