Abstract

PLATANIA, Silvia  and  PAOLILLO, Anna. Validation and measurement invariance of the Compound PsyCap Scale (CPC-12): a short universal measure of psychological capital. Anal. Psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.38, n.1, pp.63-75.  Epub June 13, 2022. ISSN 1695-2294.  https://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.449651.

The Compound PsyCap Scale (CPC-12) was developed by Lorenz et al. (2016) to broaden the application of psychological capital, since usually tied to workplace settings; however, no further verification of its suitability across different samples was performed. The present work investigated the psychometric properties of an Italian adaptation of the CPC-12 with the aim of verifying its applicability in samples where the item wording of the existing measures of PsyCap might not be suitable (e.g., students and unemployed people). Study 1 (n = 450) examined the factor structure of the scale. Study 2 (n = 255) advanced the previous CPC-12 validation by testing its measurement equivalence across gender through MCFA. Results confirmed a one higher-order factor structure with four first-order factors, the scale was found to be invariant across gender. The findings advanced the general claim of CPC-12 to be suitable for application in multiple contexts, including sport, education, vocational guidance, as well as typical and atypical work settings.

Keywords : Psychological capital; Validation; Measurement equivalence; Invariance; Psychometrics; Positive psychology.

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