Positive Psychological Capital and Self-Directed Learning Predicting Job Performance in Physiotherapists.

Abstract

The objectives of this survey research were 1) to study levels of job performance, positive psychological capital and self-directed learning 2) to study relationship between positive psychological capital and job performance 3) to study relationship between self-directed learning and job performance 4) to predict job performance by positive psychological capital and self-directed learning. The instrument was a questionnaire. Corrected item-total correlations of each item was higher than 0.2 and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for job performance, positive psychological capital, and self-directed learning were .825, .864, and .869, respectively. The sample was 391 physiotherapists in Thailand. The statistics used to analyze data were percentages, means, standard deviations, Pearson correlations, Partial Correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that: 1) the physiotherapists had a very high level of job performance, a high level of positive psychological capital, and a high level of self-directed learning; 2) there was a statistically significant relationship between positive psychological capital and job performance (p < .01); 3) There was a significant relationship between self-directed learning and job performance (p < .01); finally, 4) The 4 elements of positive psychological capital -- self-efficacy, hope and optimism and self-directed learning -- self-managing accounted for 67% of variance in job performance of physiotherapists.