Role of covitality factors in understanding work engagement

Abstract

Covitality can be understood to be the collection of positive character strengths that facilitate the achievement of the state of flow for an individual. Living in this state of flow would ensure increased levels of work engagement formed the foundational principle for the present study. The study seeks to establish the role of six covitality factors viz. grit, resilience, life satisfaction, optimism, gratitude, and self-efficacy, in understanding work engagement in working professionals who had been working in the same organization for the past two years. Correlational and regression analyses reveal that although all the six covitality factors under study exhibit a positive, significant relationship with work engagement; only three of these possessed a predictive relationship with work engagement. Life satisfaction followed by resilience and self-efficacy were found to be the most potential predictors of work engagement