Purpose

The unending ambivalence in the academic environment and the job market is detrimental to management graduates' wellbeing. The study looks into the possible intervening methods to enhance the wellbeing of students during difficult times. The study proposes spirituality development as means through which psychological resources like perceived employability and psychological capital are developed in an individual. This study also tries to identify how spirituality development leads to life wellbeing among management students.

Design/methodology/approach

Cross-sectional study was conducted among 212 management students from Kerala, India. Multi-stage random sampling was used to collect data. Structural equation modelling using IBM-AMOS was done to gain insights into the proposed relationships.

Findings

The results indicated that spirituality had a significant impact on the wellbeing of management students. Both perceived employability and psychological capital mediated the relationship between spirituality and life wellbeing.

Research limitations/implications

The positive impact of developing spirituality among students is discussed in the paper with the theoretical underpinning of broaden and build theory. The findings suggest that colleges should try to make their campus climate more supportive of students' non-academic needs and open them to a spiritual environment especially during these challenging times.

Originality/value

The study is one of the first attempts to discern how spirituality development leads to an accumulation of psychological resources and life wellbeing among management graduates'.

中文翻译：

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培养管理专业学生灵性的意义：辨别对心理资源和幸福感的影响

目的

学术环境和就业市场无休止的矛盾心理不利于管理专业毕业生的幸福感。该研究探讨了在困难时期提高学生幸福感的可能干预方法。该研究提出，灵性发展是个人发展感知就业能力和心理资本等心理资源的手段。本研究还试图确定灵性发展如何导致管理专业学生的生活幸福。

设计/方法/方法

对来自印度喀拉拉邦的 212 名管理专业学生进行了横断面研究。多阶段随机抽样用于收集数据。使用 IBM-AMOS 进行结构方程建模以深入了解所提出的关系。

发现

结果表明，灵性对管理学生的幸福感有显着影响。感知就业能力和心理资本都在灵性与生活幸福之间的关系中起中介作用。

研究限制/影响

本文讨论了发展学生灵性的积极影响，并以拓宽和构建理论为理论基础。研究结果表明，大学应该努力让校园氛围更加支持学生的非学术需求，并让他们接受精神环境，尤其是在这些充满挑战的时期。

原创性/价值

该研究是了解灵性发展如何导致管理专业毕业生积累心理资源和生活幸福的首次尝试之一。