The Study on Relationship between University Librarians’ Psychological Capital and Work Attitude: Career Satisfaction as Intermediary Variable

Abstract

Abstract:

Taking university librarians as the research object, this study discusses the relationship between university librarians’ psychological capital and work attitude, as well as the intermediary role of career satisfaction between the two. To fulfill the research purpose, this study selects job satisfaction and emotional commitment, the most widely researched indexes by organizational behavior scholars, as measured variables. It conducts questionnaire surveys to collect data, and through confirmatory factor analysis, discovers that each variable has good composite reliability, convergent validity and differentiate validity. It also detects significant correlation among the variables. In order to further confirm the causal relationship among variables, it makes structural equation model analysis that shows significant positive impact of university librarians’ psychological capital on job satisfaction, affective commitment and career satisfaction; of career satisfaction on job satisfaction and emotional commitment; and of affective commitment on job satisfaction. In other words, university librarians’ psychological capital has significant positive effect on work attitude, whereas career satisfaction has the partial intermediary effect between the two. Finally, this study suggests that psychological capital plays an important role in human resources management of university library, and the university library managers should pay more attention to developing the employees’ psychological capital to promote their work attitude and improve their work performance.

Key words:

University librarians’ psychological capital, Job satisfaction, Emotional commitment, Career satisfaction

Wang Fang, Zhang Hui. The Study on Relationship between University Librarians’ Psychological Capital and Work Attitude: Career Satisfaction as Intermediary Variable[J]. Libraly Journal, 2017, 36(9): 9-19.

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