Exploring the moderating effect of psychological capital on the relationship between narcissism and psychological well-being

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between narcissism and psychological well-being and the moderating effect of psychological capital on that relationship. Data were collected from 17 Universities in Turkey. The sample included 793 faculty members along with their faculties' deans. The obtained data from the questionnaires are analyzed through the SPSS statistical packaged software. Moderated hierarchical regression was used to examine the moderating role of psychological capital on the narcissism and psychological well-being relationship. The results show that narcissism is negatively and significantly correlated with employees' psychological well-being. In addition, the result of the hierarchical multiple regression analysis supports the moderating effect of psychological capital with regard to the relationship between narcissism and psychological well-being. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).