A Systematic Literature Review on the Relationship Between Positive Psychological Capital and Work engagement: Focusing on Korean Journal Articles

Abstract

This study presents implications and future research directions by analyzing the relationship between positive psychological capital and work commitment in Korea and analyzing the relationship between two variables as well as the relationship between two sub-factors, preceding variables, result variables, mediating variables, and moderating variables. The most significant results of analyzing the sub-factors of 53 KCI-listed journal articles that studied the relationship between the two variables are as follows: First, the number of studies on the relationship between positive psychological capital and work commitment has been increasing since 2012, and most of them involved corporate employees and service workers in the fields of management and tourism. Second, when analyzing the relationship between positive psychological capital and work commitment with the relationship between sub-factors controlled, some studies have yielded inconsistent results according to the meanings and structures of the sub-factors. Third, the preceding/mediated/modulated/result variables related to the relationship between the two variables were classified based on the job demand-resource (JD-R) model, and a conceptual integrated model was employed. This study presents its implications and future research directions based on the results.