A multi-sector survey dataset on Psychological Capital and individual job performance in India

Published: 24 September 2026| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/97s7jn7rg3.1
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Title of Dataset: A multi-sector survey dataset on Psychological Capital and individual job performance in India ================================================================================ CONTENTS OF THIS DEPOSIT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. psycap_jobperf_dataset.csv - anonymized item-level survey data (N = 93) LICENSE: CC BY 4.0. Free to reuse with attribution. NO personally identifying information (names, e-mails, timestamps) is included in either file. 1. psycap_jobperf_dataset.csv -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One row per respondent (N = 93). Columns: RespID Sequential respondent ID (1-93). Not linked to any external record. Age Under 25 | 25-34 Education Intermediate | Graduate | Post Graduate | Other Experience Years in current role: 0-1 Years | 1-2 Years | 2-4 Years | 4+ Years Gender Male | Female | Prefer not to say Sector IT | Education | E-Commerce | Manufacturing | Payments | Other All remaining columns are 5-point Likert responses (1 = Strongly Disagree / Seldom / Never ... 5 = Strongly Agree / Always / Often), coded by item as follows. PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL QUESTIONNAIRE (PCQ, 24 items) ---------------------------------------------------- SE1-SE6 Self-Efficacy OP1-OP6 Optimism HP1-HP6 Hope RS1-RS6 Resilience INDIVIDUAL WORK PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE (IWPQ, 18 items) ------------------------------------------------------------ TP1-TP5 Task Performance CP1-CP8 Contextual Performance CWB1-CWB5 Counterproductive Work Behaviour (reverse-scored in the original instrument; see note below) SOURCE INSTRUMENTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. PCQ: Luthans, F., Youssef, C. M., & Avolio, B. J. (2007). Psychological Capital: Developing the Human Competitive Edge. Oxford University Press. 2. IWPQ: Koopmans, L., Bernaards, C. M., Hildebrandt, V. H., et al. (2013-2015). Individual Work Performance Questionnaire. CONTACT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Rushikesh Borse, Yuvraj Singh and V Venkata Nagarajan / rushikesh.p@greatlakes.edu.in]

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*Instrument*: An online Google Forms questionnaire combined the 24-item Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ; Luthans et al., 2007) and the 18-item Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ; Koopmans et al., 2013–2015), plus five demographic questions. All 42 items used a 5-point Likert scale. *Collection*: The survey was distributed to working professionals (18+) across multiple sectors in India via convenience sampling, with informed consent, yielding 93 valid responses. *Cleaning*: Personally identifying fields (timestamp, e-mail, name) and non-response rows were removed, and sequential Respondent IDs assigned, producing psycap_jobperf_dataset.csv.

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Corporate Organization, Job Performance

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