| | Cross-sectional | Career adaptability, hope, life-satisfaction | Career Adaptabilities Scale-Italian Form, THS, SWLS | To investigate the role of hope and career adaptability in affecting life satisfaction of workers with intellectual disability | 120 adult workers | Career adaptability indirectly, through agency and pathways, predicted life satisfaction |
| | Cross-sectional | Mindfulness, work engagement, mental wellbeing, psychological capital, positive affect | Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9), WEMWBS, PCQ, Job-related Affective Well-being Scale (JAWS) | To investigate the relationship between dispositional mindfulness, work engagement, and well-being | 229 adults in full-time employment | Mindfulness predicted work engagement and general well-being. These relationships were mediated by positive job-related affect and psychological capital |
| | Cross-sectional | PsyCap, job embeddedness, job performance | Job embeddedness seven-item scale, PCQ, five-item scale to measure in-role performance | To explore the relationships between PsyCap, job embeddedness and performance in nurses | 733 nurses from five university hospitals in China. | A strong relationship between the nurses’ self-reported psychological capital, job embeddedness and performance |
| | Cross-sectional | Self-efficacy, hope, positive affect, creativity at work | Six item self-efficacy scale, SHS, Job Affect Scale, 13 item creativity scale | To examine whether self-efficacy and hope predict creativity of retail employees | 507 retail employees and their supervisors | Hope, self-efficacy and positive affect predicted creativity. Positive affect partially mediated the relationship between hope and self-efficacy with creativity |
| | Cross-sectional | Hope, efficacy, resilience, optimism, PsyCap, job satisfaction | PCQ, SHS, Role Breadth Self-Efficacy Scale, Ego-Resiliency Scale, LOT-R, job satisfaction measure | The relevance of PsyCap is conceptualized and tested in relation to job satisfaction in some of Egypt’s most important industries | 451 Egyptian employees in 11 organizations | Hope, self-efficacy, resilience and optimism, individually and when integrated into the higher-order multidimensional construct, PsyCap, were positively related to employees’ job satisfaction |