The effects of psychological capital and personality dimensions on psychological well being, flow, job satisfaction and performance

This study focuses on researching the antecedents of positive psychology which is a very highly researched area in the organizational behavior sciences since the last decade.These antecedents are personality, psychological capital, performance, work satisfaction, psychological well being and flow in orderly. In order to carry out this research 500 surveys have been collected from white collar workers from three different firms in Ankara Turkey. These surveys were subject to structural equation model analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. After the analysis phase it was found that psycological capital dimensions and personality dimensions have positive relationship with psychological well being, job satisfaction and job performance. Also optimal performance state (flow) has partial effect between psychological capital, personality dimensions and psychological well being, job satisfaction and job performance.