Abstract:
The present study aimed at assessing the direct and indirect association between the
psychological capital, religious coping and mental well-being among engineers. In the study the
psychological capital was assessed from four factors namely hope, optimism, resilience and self-
efficacy. Religious coping was assessed from two factors namely positive religious coping and
negative religious coping. A sample that comprised of 499 participants was selected through
purposive sampling technique ranging in age from 29-45 year (M = 33.43, SD = 6.808).
Participants were assessed on the Psychological Capital scale which was used to assess the hope,
self-efficacy, optimism and resilience; The 14 item Brief RCOPE scale which was used to assess
the positive and negative religious coping; and The 14 item Mental Well-Being Questionnaire
which was used to assess the mental health. The results showed that two subscales of
psychological capital hope and self-efficacy out of the four were positively correlated with
mental well-being, positive religious coping was positively correlated with mental well-being,
and negative religious coping was not significantly correlated with mental well-being. Finding
from mediation model showed that positive religious coping significantly mediated the
association between self-efficacy and mental well-being.
