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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Psychological Capital on teleworking adoption. The methodology of this study for purpose is implication and descriptive-survey type. The statistical society of this research was Ministry of Mine, Industry and Business. The data was gathered via standard questionnaires were distributed among teleworkers (n=84) and non-teleworkers (n=266) randomly selected from the society, validity and reliability of those questionnaire was measured by Cronbach's alpha coefficient and confirmatory factor analysis. Data analysis was performed by SPSS and LISREL software packages utilizing statistical tests such as: K-S test and Structural Equations Modeling.
The findings showed Psychological Capital effects on teleworking adoption. We also showed that only two dimensions of Psychological Capital (hope and optimism) affected on teleworking adoption

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