Psychological Capital: Willpower and Resilience

Nik Kinley and Shlomo Ben-Hur
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Nik Kinley: YSC Ltd
Shlomo Ben-Hur: IMD

Chapter 7 in Changing Employee Behavior, 2015, pp 113-128 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Whether you call it determination, perseverance, or sheer stubbornness, the inner strength and steel to keep going and not quit is a key component of psychological capital. The psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth calls it something else: grit. Studying what makes the difference between people who achieve their goals and those who do not, Duckworth has discovered that high levels of grit can predict:

Keywords: Behavior Change; Deep Breath; Psychological Capital; Nice Thing; Thing People (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137449566_7

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