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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of a second-order state-like construct “psychological capital” (or PsyCap) as an underlying mechanism explaining the personality–academic achievement (AA) relationship in the educational context. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual model was statistically tested on a sample of 305 post-graduate students at a premier business school in central India using standard measures of personality and PsyCap. AA was measured through cumulative grade point average obtained from the administrative office. Data were collected through multiple sources to minimize common method variance. Analysis was done using macro PROCESS and validated using PLS–SEM. Findings Results indicated that PsyCap positively influenced AA. Furthermore, PsyCap mediated the relationship between openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness dimensions of student personality and AA. Research limitations/implications Longitudinal research designs with interventions to enhance PsyCap of students may strengthen the findings of this study. Practical implications The findings suggest that the curriculum in higher education institutions should include inter

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Author

Ranjeet Nambudiri; Rihana Shaik; Swati Ghulyani

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences