ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1662673
Psychological Capital, Job Engagement, and Innovative Behavior: Investigating the Juxtaposed Mediating Mechanism of Intrinsic Motivation
Provisionally accepted
- Hainan University, Haikou, China
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This study explores the relationship between psychological capital, work engagement, and employees' innovative behavior in China's high-tech enterprises. Based on survey data collected nationwide, regression analyses indicate psychological capital significantly enhances innovative behavior, with work engagement partially mediating this relationship. Psychological capital is examined through task-based, relational, learning, and innovative dimensions tailored specifically to knowledge workers. Findings emphasize that organizations should foster psychological capital and promote work engagement to stimulate employee innovation. This research enriches theoretical insights on employee innovation mechanisms and provides practical implications for human resource management strategies in innovation-driven organizations.
Keywords: Psychological Capital, work engagement, Innovation behavior, knowledge workers, Employee motivation
Received: 09 Jul 2025; Accepted: 15 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhang, Xu and Fu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Yanqing Xu, sunnyxu11@126.com
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