부산대학교 도서관

Psychological capital is an important construct in the positive psychology area that has received much research attention in recent years. The examination of the psychometric properties of the psychological capital measures can provide evidence for the research validity. This study was designed to examine psychometric qualities of the 24-item Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ-24 and the shortend13-item Psychological Capital Questionnaire, PCQ-13). We also examined the measurement equivalence of PCQ-24 and PCQ-13 cross-gender. Based on the data collected from 790 Taiwanese full-time employees, we conducted analyses with LISREL. The results showed that PCQ-24 and PCQ-13 have full configural invariance, partial metric, partial scalar, partial uniqueness, and partial latent means invariance. Unlike PCQ-24 which has a full factor variance-covariance matrix, PCQ-13 only has a partial variance-covariance matrix. In conclusion, both PCQ-24 and PCQ-13 have acceptable psychometric properties and can be used for cross-gender comparisons in Taiwan.