Our department professor, Assoc. Prof. Seval Aksoy Kürü's study with Assoc. Prof. Kemal Köksal was published in the journal Current Psychology.

The financial sector, especially banking, has witnessed a transformation in business practices and employee expectations due to globalization and increasing competition. This situation can lead to work-related depression, which has some negative effects on life satisfaction and well-being. In addition, the relationship between depression and life satisfaction in healthy individuals and bank employees has not been studied comprehensively, and limited research has been conducted on conditional factors (e.g. bank type). In addition, bank type and psychological capital (PsyCap) may affect the relationship between depression and life satisfaction. In this study, the moderating effects of bank types (public and private) and psychological capital on the relationship between work-related depression and life satisfaction were investigated. Data were collected from 281 bank employees working in private and public banks. The results showed that depression and life satisfaction were negatively correlated. Multi-group confirmatory factor analyses showed that this negative relationship was slightly higher in public bank employees than in private bank employees. Psychological capital reduced the negative effect of depression on life satisfaction.

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