The Impact of Perceived Organizational Support and Core Self-Evaluation on Employee’s Psychological Well-Being

Chao Ni,Ying Wang

doi:10.4236/jhrss.2015.32011

Abstract

Psychological well-being (PWB) is a concept different from subjective well-being in positive psychology. PWB is conceptualized as a construct which includes the happy emotional experience and the realization of individual potential. This paper assumes that employee’s core self-evaluation and their perceived organizational support have a positive effect on psychological well-being. The result based on 441 valid questionnaires supports our hypothesis that employee’s core self-evaluation and their perceived organizational support are positively related to their reported psychological well-being. Core self-evaluation is also found to moderate the association of perceived organizational support with PWB in such that POS is more strongly related to PWB for employees who are higher, compared with those lower in CSE.

Highlights

While China is focusing on the economic development, its attention is increasingly shifted to the issue of national happiness, especially the discussion about the question “Are you happy” generated by the CCTV in 2012
There are two different orientations of positive psychology to the well-being of the research: subjective well-being in the view of hedonic and psychology well-being in the view of eudemonia
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between organizational support and psychological well-being and between core self-evaluations and psychological well-being

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While China is focusing on the economic development, its attention is increasingly shifted to the issue of national happiness, especially the discussion about the question “Are you happy” generated by the CCTV in 2012. This discussion has caused a deep thinking for the happiness of Chinese people. In the view of philosophy, well-being includes two basic types: hedonic and eudemonia The former regards well-being as a happy experience; the latter thinks well-being is a feeling of happiness, and a perfect experience by fully exerting the potential. From the overall perspective of life, well-being is involved in several areas, such as work, family, and in-

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