The Effect of Psychological Capital on Work Engagement: Investigating the Moderating Effect of Gender and Job

Muhammad Tamar, Hillman Wirawan

2018

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effect of Psychological Capital (PsyCap) on Work Engagement and examine the potential moderating effect of gender and job type. The effect of PsyCap on desired work behavior and work attitude is ubiquitous. However, little is known whether the effect is consistent across different gender and job type. This study employed a moderated multiple regression analysis to empirically test the moderating effect of gender and job on PsyCap – Work Engagement relationship controlling the effect of tenure, age and education. The data were collected from 466 participants who were registered as full-time public transportation personnel (186) and nurses (280) in Makassar city. As predicted, the results found that PsyCap contributed to employee Work Engagement (ΔR2= .11, β= .34, p< 0.01). The findings also suggested significant cross-product of PsyCapxGender (ΔR2= 0.02, β= .13, p< 0.01) and PsyCapxJob (ΔR2= 0.01, β= .14, p< 0.05). This study confirmed a number of previous findings where PsyCap contributed to employee positive work attitudes. Further, this study added considerably important information about the moderating effect of gender and job type on PsyCap and its consequences. Discussion, limitation and future research direction are also included.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tamar M. and Wirawan H. (2018). The Effect of Psychological Capital on Work Engagement: Investigating the Moderating Effect of Gender and Job.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 535-542. DOI: 10.5220/0008591705350542

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Muhammad Tamar and Hillman Wirawan},
title={The Effect of Psychological Capital on Work Engagement: Investigating the Moderating Effect of Gender and Job},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={535-542},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008591705350542},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - The Effect of Psychological Capital on Work Engagement: Investigating the Moderating Effect of Gender and Job
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Tamar M.
AU - Wirawan H.
PY - 2018
SP - 535
EP - 542
DO - 10.5220/0008591705350542