The highest number of forcibly displaced people has been currently recorded due to war, poverty, and climate change. Recently, a process that recognizes refugees as reliable interlocutors for the improvement of reception policies has started. Refugees are therefore encouraged to start up social enterprises aimed at fostering newcomers’ social integration to participate to such a phenomenon.
Purpose. Psychological Capital (PsyCap), consisting of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism, is a positive state associated with attitudes, behaviors and performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate a dynamic mediational model posing work engagement as the mediator of the longitudinal relation between PsyCap and job performance.
The present study aims to investigate the mediating role of job crafting, namely the set of proactive behaviors aimed
at shaping the job role according to one’s preferences, in the relationship between psychological capital (PsyCap) and
career success. This latter was operationalized as both a worker’s subjective perception (i.e., job satisfaction) and an
objective attainment (i.e., change of hierarchical level, namely promotion). A two-wave study on 349 employees from
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