Kalim, Erica Salina2018-01-242018-01-242016https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2561Supervised by: . Dr. Iftikhar AhmadThe study explored relationship between psychological capital and job satisfaction among teachers of government and private schools of Lahore, city of Pakistan. It was hypothesized that there will be a positive correlation between job satisfaction and psychological capital. It was also hypothesized that teacher’s age and gender doesn’t affect the level of job satisfaction.. The sample of the study included 100 teachers from government and hundred from private schools. The measures that used in this research were Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Luthans et al., 2007), Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1985) and Demographics sheet.The demographic variables included respondent age, gender, education and their work experience. The tests the used in this study are correlation and t-test. Results revealed that there is a significant relationship between psychological capital and job satisfaction. Significantly positive relationship were also found out between hope and job satisfaction. Findings also revealed that age and gender does not affect job satisfaction. It also revealed that self-efficacy and optimism are positively correlated because both are learned components and teachers efficacy is positively correlated with their job satisfaction. Employees are important assets of an organization in order to get more benefits from employees it is necessary to keep them psychologically healthy. The managers should arrange seminars, workshops and counseling session to boost up their psychological capital.enPsychological capitalJob satisfactionOptimismMS ThesisThesis