Title:
THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL IN MEDIATION OF THE EFFECT OF PROTEAN CAREER ORIENTATION ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING

Authors:
Ni Made Mas Anindya Sthira Sista and I Gusti Ayu Manuati Dewi ,Indonesia

Abstract:
To improve the psychological well-being of employees, organizations must have more value offered to employees. One of the values that can be offered is a clear career orientation and psychological capital. When an employee's protean career is high, which is seen from the employee feeling responsible for success and failure in his career, always showing an optimistic attitude towards his career and having the freedom to determine his career, it will affect the psychological well-being of employees, because employees feel able to take advantage of opportunities and create opportunities. to develop themselves, which at the same time can increase the psychological capital of employees because automatically employees have hope for their careers. The sample used is a contract employee at the Department of Industry and Trade of the Province of Bali and Denpasar City, totaling 112 respondents with a sample collection technique using a saturated sample. This research uses PLS (Partial Least Square) analysis technique. The results of the study found that protean career orientation had a significant positive effect on psychological well-being. Protean career orientation has a significant positive effect on psychological capital. Psychological capital has a significant positive effect on psychological well-being. Psychological capital acts as a partial mediating variable on the effect of protean career orientation on psychological well-being.