Browsing by Author "Kawalya, Charles"

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    The Interaction Effect of Psychological Capital on the relationship between Self-Driven Personality and Happiness at Work
    (Applied Psychology Around the World, 2021) Kawalya, Charles; Kasekende, Francis; Munene, John C.
    The purpose of this paper is to examine how Psychological Capital and Self-Driven Personality fuse to affect Happiness at Work in the nursing profession in Uganda. The paper adopts a cross-sectional descriptive and analytical design. The authors employ structural equation modeling to test hypotheses. Using proportionate and simple random sampling procedures, a sample of 900 respondents was drawn from different hospitals in Uganda of which a response rate of 88.8 percent was obtained. The magnitude effect of Self-Driven Personality on Happiness at Work depends on Psychological Capital; implying that the assumption of non-additivity is met. Only a single research methodological approach was employed and future research through interviews could be undertaken to triangulate. In order to boost happiness at the workplace, heads of hospitals should always endeavor to find a viable self-driven personality- psychological capital blend that can add value to nurses in Uganda. This is one of the few studies that focus on testing the interactive effects of psychological capital on the relationship between self-driven personality and happiness at the workplace in Uganda’s health sector.
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    Psychological capital and happiness at the workplace: The mediating role of flow experience
    (Cogent Business & Management, 2019) Kawalya, Charles; Munene, John C.; Ntayi, Joseph; Kagaari, James; Mafabi, Sam; Kasekende, Francis
    The purpose of this paper is to report on the results of the study to establish the mediating role of flow experience on the relationship between psychological capital and happiness at the workplace with a focus on public hospitals in Uganda. This study was cross-sectional and a total sample size of 800 professional nurses in public hospitals in Uganda was considered. The findings indicated that flow experience partially mediates the relationship between psychological capital and happiness at the workplace. Besides, the finding also indicated that there is a significant and positive relationship between psychological capital and happiness at the workplace. The findings correspond to the argument that in the face of the variety of theoretical and practical implications provided, there is a need for professional workers to be innately involved in their work if their psychological capital is to affect their level of happiness at the workplace. However, this paper is limited by the fact that the respondents’ emotions were examined through a cross-sectional research design and the time effects of these emotions were not examined and remain unknown under this study.