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The Improving Academic Performance Through Effective Managing Psychological Capital: With Reference To Undergraduates Of Rajarata University Of Sri Lanka
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Udayanga J. B. P. Weerasinghe I. M. S. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Psychological capital has been receiving increasing attention of global academia as it is deemed as an important controller of human performance. In business management it has extensively been explored, however no significant attention has been received to sightsee how the concept could be effectively used to swell academic performance of students. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of psychological capital on academic performance of undergraduates of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. The data were collected from a sample of 300 students in all faculties of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka using the stratified sampling method through a selfadministrated questionnaire. The questions were measured through Likert Five Scale. Results were drawn using bivariate correlation and linear regression analyses. Results of the study revealed that optimism, resilience, selfefficacy have positive significant impact on academic performance of the undergraduates of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, albeit the impact of hope on academic performance was negative and statistically insignificant. The research provides important information about the impact of increasing psychological capital on academic performance of undergraduates. Although the impact of psychological capital on performance has been investigated in the other contexts, research in Sri Lankan context is scant. Therefore, this study provides insights particularly to the present context might be also valid in Sri Lankan University Context. Conclusions from this research suggested that, in order to increase the academic performance of students is essential to enhance the resilience, optimism, selfefficacy of the students. The resilience of the students could be increased by educating them to handle stressful situation effectively. Series of positive thinking workshop would be more effective to change the mindset of undergraduates, by then optimism could be reached up to expected level. Self-efficacy could be achieved redesigning university curricula incorporating more practical sides of the subjects to uplift students’ extra-curricular activities, group activities. |
| Starting Page | 9673 |
| Ending Page | 9673 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.29322/ijsrp.9.12.2019.p9673 |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-1219/ijsrp-p9673.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.29322/ijsrp.9.12.2019.p9673 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
