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. 2018 Jun 22;13(6):e0198588.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198588. eCollection 2018.

Positive organizational behavior: Longitudinal effects on subjective well-being

Kathrin Heinitz  1 , Timo Lorenz  1 , Daniel Schulze  1 , Julia Schorlemmer  2
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Positive organizational behavior: Longitudinal effects on subjective well-being

Kathrin Heinitz et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

Increasing individual subjective well-being has various positive outcomes, knowledge about its antecedents and the mediators of this relationship can therefore help to increase subjective well-being and the accompanying positive effects. The more future oriented facets of psychological capital, i.e. optimism, hope and self-efficacy have been shown in several studies to be positively related to subjective well-being and negatively to ill-being. Furthermore, recent studies suggest coping strategies as mediators for these relationships. In our study, we examined the longitudinal relation of optimism, hope and self-efficacy with subjective well-being and ill-being in a German panel dataset and tested the mediating effect of flexible goal adjustment in a path model. Our results show a statistically significant positive effect of self-efficacy and optimism on subjective well-being as well as a statistically significant negative effect of optimism on depression over three years. All three predictors show a statistically significant relation with flexible goal adjustment, but flexible goal adjustment did not mediate the effect on subjective well-being or depression.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that not competing interests exist.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. Path model of the longitudinal relation of self-efficacy, optimism and hope with well-being and depression, mediated by flexible goal-adjustment.
Regression weights are standardized beta-weights, a critical health event is coded no/yes; b sex is coded male/female;.* p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001.
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