Personal Psychological Resources and Psychological Capital in Occupational Well-Being

Employee well-being is shaped by the interaction between organizational conditions and the personal psychological resources individuals bring to their work. Self-compassion, self-esteem, self-forgiveness, self-affirmation, and related self-evaluative strengths may support emotional regulation, adaptive coping, confidence, and recovery from workplace challenges. These resources also appear conceptually and functionally connected to Psychological Capital (PsyCap), which comprises hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. However, important questions remain concerning whether self-related resources operate as antecedents, dimensions, correlates, or moderators of PsyCap, and how these relationships vary across occupational, cultural, and organizational contexts. Recent research generally associates PsyCap and related personal strengths with greater work engagement, resilience, job satisfaction, and psychological well-being, as well as lower stress and emotional exhaustion. Nevertheless, the directionality and mechanisms underlying these associations remain insufficiently established. Longitudinal, multilevel, cross-cultural, mixed-methods, and intervention-based research is needed to clarify how these resources develop, interact, and translate into sustainable occupational well-being.This Research Topic aims to advance understanding of how personal psychological resources relate to and interact with Psychological Capital in shaping employee well-being. It seeks to examine whether self-compassion, self-esteem, self-forgiveness, self-affirmation, and related constructs predict or strengthen hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism at work; investigate the psychological and social mechanisms involved; and assess their relationships with stress, engagement, recovery, and broader well-being outcomes. It also welcomes research testing boundary conditions, including organizational climate, leadership, job demands and resources, cultural values, career stage, and family or household circumstances as contextual influences on these relationships. Studies may address whether these resources can be developed through individual, relational, organizational, or multilevel interventions and whether improvements in PsyCap mediate subsequent changes in occupational functioning and well-being.To gather further insights into the contribution of personal psychological resources to Psychological Capital and occupational well-being, this Research Topic focuses on employees and work-related experiences across organizational, occupational, and cultural contexts. Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:• Self-compassion, self-esteem, self-forgiveness, self-affirmation, and related self-related strengths at work• Antecedents, components, and moderators of Psychological Capital• Interactions between personal resources, PsyCap, and workplace resilience• Psychological mechanisms linking self-related resources to stress regulation and adaptive coping• Associations with employee well-being, work engagement, job satisfaction, and meaningful work• Emotional exhaustion, stress recovery, and psychological well-being outcomes• Longitudinal and developmental pathways of PsyCap and personal psychological resources• Cross-cultural, non-Western, and comparative research perspectives• Contextual and organizational boundary conditions, including leadership, job demands and resources, and organizational climate• Intervention and prevention programs designed to strengthen PsyCap and occupational well-being• Multilevel, mixed-methods, and person-centred approaches to workplace well-being Topic editors: Priyanka Parihar, Gyanesh Kumar Tiwari Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/85380/personal-psychological-resources-and-psychological-capital-in-occupational-well-being