Research on the Psychological Capital and Job Burn-Out of Mechanical Engineers in Chinese Enterprises
This paper utilized questionnaires to conduct a research on a total of 160 mechanical engineers in five enterprises in Wuhan, China in search of the relationship between psychological capital and job burn-out of mechanical engineers. The result shows that the psychological capital and job burn-out are obviously negatively correlated. The elements of psychological capital such as self-efficacy, optimism, hope and toughness can negatively predict the elements of job burn-out such as emotional burn-out, depersonalization, and decreasing accomplishment. Enterprises of China should take measures such as psychological capital diagnosis, professional mindset training, work-family balance project, job transfer and career culture construction to develop the psychological capital of mechanical engineers and reduce job burn-out.