Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2018/Psychological capital

Heading casing
-- Jtneill - Talk - c 08:25, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Direct quotes
Note that in APA style, direct quotes need page numbers as part of the citation. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 14:01, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Case Study Feedback
Hi Silvia,

That was an interesting read, thanks for asking for feedback! I hadn't considered the specific characteristics of positive psych development so was good to get an idea of how it is defined.

I liked the use of a case study but thought it could be further developed by providing some more explicit examples - such as why Michelle thought her workplace could specifically benefit (e.g. there were problems with x in the workplace), what the intervention might have involved, etc. Essentially something to provide a bit more of an illustration of what PsyCap development might look like in real life. If there was an image that would illustrate steps for implementing/using PsyCap in the workplace that might also help as well.

Hope that's helpful, good luck! Cheers, Dot--Foley.d (discuss • contribs) 00:05, 8 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Dot, thank you for taking the time to give me some feedback. As suggested I added a fictional case study. If you get a chance could you please have a look over the case study to see if it makes sense etc. Also, do you think i need to add a section on the outcome of the intervention? Thanks in advance, Silvia U3037801 (discuss • contribs) 09:17, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Promising case study. To develop further, perhaps consider: -- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:46, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * introducing the case study "problem" in the Overview, and then advancing the case study within each major section
 * how the intervention might develop each of the four aspects of HERO
 * impact on an individual worker
 * putting the case study in a highlighted box(es)
 * for other examples of case studies, maybe look through some previous chapters that have been highlighted with a yellow star . There are also some good examples at the beginning of each chapter in the Reeve textbook.

Suggestions
Hi there, this is an interesting and well developed chapter! I added APA captions to your figures. I also have a few suggestions for you, 1. Adding more hyperlinks to relevant words in your chapter, 2. Changing the first letter of the words after a dot point to capitals, 3. The APA is not quite correct in your reference list (eg. journals should be italicised). Well done and good luck, I hope this is helpful! --U3160212 (discuss • contribs) 10:26, 13 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi U3160212, Thanks for the positive feedback on my chapter and the useful suggestions for improvement. Appreciated, Silvia

APA style for direct quotes
Note that APA style for direct quotes is to include page numbers, including for the first quote. Also note that direct quotes are probably over-used in this chapter. They don't really demonstrate much in the way of demonstrating your own synthesis of theory and research. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:38, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

APA style for citations
Note that APA style for citations of three or more authors includes a comma before than ampersand (i.e., Luthans, Youseff & Avolio, 2017 -> Luthans, Youseff, & Avolio, 2017). -- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:35, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 11:51, 18 November 2018 (UTC)