Against the backdrop of China’s economic restructuring and intensifying workplace competition, employee job satisfaction has declined significantly. To explore culturally specific dimensions of psychological capital (PsyCap) such as "relational resilience" and "collective hope," and further explain the dilemma of "high engagement but low satisfaction" in China, this study, based on the Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory and the perspective of cultural psychology, investigates the mediating role of PsyCap in the relationship between work engagement and job satisfaction, as well as the moderating effects of industry type and education level. This study adopts a mixed-methods research approach. First, a literature review was conducted to construct a theoretical model of "work engagement → PsyCap → job satisfaction," with industry type and education level set as moderating variables. Subsequently, a stratified sampling survey was carried out in the core economic regions of eastern China. Electronic questionnaires were distributed to employees in the manufacturing industry and high-tech industry (samples from the two industries each accounted for 50%, consistent with the national industrial structure). After screening out invalid questionnaires, 428 valid questionnaires were finally obtained, with an effective recovery rate of 91.1%. The sample was representative in terms of demographic characteristics: the 26-35 age group (the main labor force) accounted for 58%, females accounted for 52.1%, and education levels ranged from junior high school and below to master’s degree and above. The research measurement tools included: (1) Work Engagement Scale, which consists of two dimensions: autonomous engagement and obligatory engagement; (2) Psychological Capital Scale, focusing on two dimensions: "hope for organizational support" and "resilience rooted in family responsibility"; (3) Job Satisfaction Scale, which includes two dimensions: intrinsic satisfaction and extrinsic satisfaction. Data were analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and the Bootstrap method (5,000 resamplings). The main research results are as follows: (1) Full mediating effect of PsyCap: Work engagement had a significant positive predictive effect on PsyCap (β=0.61, p<0.001), among which both obligatory engagement (β=0.45, p<0.001) and autonomous engagement (β=0.39, p=0.003) were significant; PsyCap had a significant positive predictive effect on job satisfaction (β=0.70, p<0.001), and the contribution of the "hope" dimension (β=0.51, p<0.001) was higher than that of the "resilience" dimension (β=0.38, p=0.005). The direct effect of work engagement on job satisfaction was not significant (β=0.09, p=0.215), and the mediating effect of PsyCap accounted for 82.7% of the total effect. (2) Moderating effects: Industry type moderated the path of "work engagement → PsyCap"; education level moderated the path of "PsyCap → job satisfaction." The interaction between the two revealed a "dual-track mechanism": employees with low education in the manufacturing industry followed the path of "obligatory engagement → resilience → satisfaction" (β=0.36, p<0.001), while employees with high education in the high-tech industry followed the path of "autonomous engagement → hope → satisfaction" (β=0.49, p<0.001). Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the model had a good fit (χ²/df=2.15, CFI=0.96, RMSEA=0.052), and the Average Variance Extracted (AVE) of all constructs was greater than 0.5, while the Composite Reliability (CR) was higher than 0.8. Theoretically, this study deepens the cultural adaptability of PsyCap and expands the connotation of the COR Theory by emphasizing social resources such as family well-being. Practically, the study provides differentiated strategies: manufacturing enterprises can enhance employees’ resilience through family support measures such as children’s education subsidies; high-tech enterprises can strengthen employees’ sense of hope by improving the transparency of promotion. This study has limitations, including its cross-sectional design and samples concentrated in eastern China. Future research can adopt a longitudinal design and expand the samples to central and western China.
지난 기간 한-중 관계는 그 흐름과 의미를 제대로 평가하고 이에 대처하기도 어려울 정도로 사회 각 분야에서 다양한 양적 질적 변화를 불러왔으며, 나아가 우리의 생활은 물론 의식구조에 까지 ‘중국’이 주요한 구성요소로 자리잡을 정도가 되었습니다. 또한, ‘중국’을 다양한 측면에서 다양한 방식으로 연구하고 있는 학문연구의 세계에서도 전통적인 인문학적 연구의 범주를 넘어 그 주제의 다양성과 심도에 있어 많은 변화를 가져왔으며, 사회 각 분야에서 더욱 활발하며 실질적인 중국연구의 요구가 정부, 기업, 학계 등에서 날로 늘어나고 있습니다. 이와 같이 날이 갈수록 다양한 분야의 중국연구의 필요성이 급속히 커지고 있는 상황이어서 2014년 9월 일자로 본 학회를 설립하게 되었습니다. ‘중국지역학회’는 거시적 차원의 중국연구라는 기본적인 바탕 위에서 ‘지역학적 차원’에서 중국에 대한 연구를 하는 학자와 각계 각층의 전문가들로 구성하고, 화이부동(和而不同)의 개방적인 자세로 진실하고 자유로운 학문적 교류, 허심탄회한 비평과 의견교환, 언어와 논리 유희에 그치지 않는 실질적인 지식, 전체와 부분을 모두 아우르는 지혜를 집대성하고, 연구집단 각자의 이익을 넘어 우리사회에 대한 책임과 의무를 다하는 지성들의 모임이 되고자 합니다. 나아가 회원들이 각 분야에서 일반인들보다 재능을 더 받은 것에 진정으로 깊이 감사하고, ‘중국’과 ‘중국지역’의 과거, 현재, 미래에 대한 연구를 통해 한국의 나아갈 길을 찾아내고 우리 사회를 학문과 실제를 통해 섬기는 학회가 되고자 합니다.
이를 위해 중국을 연구하는데 자기의 능력을 발휘하고 있는 학자와 전문가라면 차별 없이 회원으로 같이 활동하면서, 상호간의 아낌없는 협력을 통해
1)중국지역연구를 위해 중국 각 지의 대학, 연구소, 정부, 기업과의 학술 및 비즈니스교류,
2)중국지역연구를 통해 중국을 알리고 나아가 우리의 갈 길을 제시하는 실사구시(實事求是)의 학술지 발간,
3)한중 지역별 학술세미나 상호개최,
4)기존 학자의 연구지원 및 우수 신진학자의 발굴,
5)회원간 연구그룹을 결성하여 학문적 성과에 대한 대중적 도서출판, 나아가
6) 씽크탱크 역할을 하는 중국지역연구소의 설립 등을 목표로 활동하게 될 것입니다.