Do Yesterday's Difficulties in Childhood Affect Today's Psychological Capital?

A study was conducted in the light of the thesis that difficulties in childhood related to working, income and health conditions can strengthen the psychological capital of individuals in the future.In order to test this thesis, firstly, difficult life inventory was developed.In addition, a survey was conducted on the students who were attending undergraduate education by using psychological capital scale.Factor, correlation and regression analyzes were performed on data collected from 294 participants.When the findings were examined, it was found that only the working dimension of the difficult life inventory had a significant and positive relationship with self-efficacy, hope and endurance. In addition, it has been found that working dimension has a significant and positive effect on these dimensions. Besides the literature related to this study provided a difficult life inventory in childhood