Abstract:
This research examines the relationship between the employee wellbeing and job
performance with the particular emphasis on school teachers in Sri Lanlia at Kandy
district. This stucly investigates r,vellbeing in its three aspects, namely physical'
emotional. and social and hor,v the psychological capital afTects the relationships
between these aspects and the job perfornrance. The researchers carry out research on
a quantitative study method r,vith a structured questionnaire and focus on 371 teachers
and the research data were processed using SPSS and the technique of correlation
analysis and multivariate regression and moderation w'ith the use of the PROCE'SS
macro. It has been found out that the three-dimension (physical, emotional, and social)
view of employee wellbeing exerts a positive and significant effect on job performance
of all these, social wellbeing was observed to play the most influential role, then
follow'ed by emotional and physical wellbeing'
Moreover, these findings confitm that psychological cap'ital does not influence the
relationship between employee well-being and job perfbrmance, and that psychological
resources such as resilience, optimism, and self-effrCacy''enhance positive outcomes
r,vhen they are high. There are significant implications of the study to education policymakers
and administrators at schools where it is recommended that teachers physical
health, emotional w-ellbeing and social relatethress need to be nurtured to achieve better
results at work.
Additionally, psychological capital, achieved through organizational training and
development initiatives, woulcl also enhance these impacts even more' Another impact
of the findings on the scholarly field is the provision of empirical evidence in the
context of a developing country, where the wellbeing of teachers is frequently ignored'
Overall, the research detennines the multifacetedness of wellbeing and highlights the
significance of psychological lesources as one of the means of performance
optimization that also presupposes the holistic approach to teacher support in the Sri
Lankan education sYstem.
Keyrvords: Physical wellbeing, Emotional wellbeing, Social wellbeing'
Psychological capital, Job performance