construct.psychological_capital_psycap predicts construct.job_satisfaction
normal · weakly_informative · 2 studies · N = 3,173
Distribution
Weakly informative prior. This prior is weakly informative. It will nudge your posterior but won't overwhelm it; expect data to do most of the work in modest samples.
Intervals
- Confidence interval (95%) — uncertainty about the mean ρ
- [0.44, 0.73]
- Credibility interval (95%) — distribution of the true effect across settings (the Bayesian prior)
- [0.39, 0.76]
- I² (heterogeneity) — share of total variance from between-study differences
- 81% — considerable heterogeneity; moderators likely dominate
The true effect varies across settings — moderators likely matter.
SD_ρ>0 — true effect varies across settings; likely moderated (observed-score scale until artifact correction, PRN-058)
Evidence provenance
published ρ=0.60 (k=2, high heterogeneity (I²=0.81)); no primary-deployment evidence yet
| Source | ρ (r) | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Published literature | 0.60 | k = 2 · N = 3,173 |
- high heterogeneity (I²=0.81)
- replication: meta-analytic
No primary-deployment evidence yet — this prior rests on published literature alone. As anonymized, aggregated effect sizes from real deployments are contributed, they appear here as a distinct, publication-bias-free source, fused with the literature into a posterior estimate.
Code
Drop this prior straight into your model. Snippets generated from the synthesized distribution + parameters.
target += normal_lpdf(beta | 0.698444, 0.113353);beta = pm.Normal("beta", mu=0.698444, sigma=0.113353)brms::prior(normal(0.698444, 0.113353), class = "b")# base R sample
rnorm(N, mean = 0.698444, sd = 0.113353)np.random.normal(loc=0.698444, scale=0.113353, size=N)Parameters
| Family | Parameters |
|---|---|
| normal | I2 = 0.8059, mu = 0.6984, sigma = 0.1134, r_mean = 0.6034, k_studies = 2.000, tau_squared = 0.02142, fisher_z_bias = 0.06113, r_mean_bare_bones = 0.5423 |
Synthesis
- Method
- random_effects_meta
- Informativeness
- weakly_informative
- Replication status
- meta-analytic
- k_studies
- 2
- n_total
- 3,173
- Last updated
- 2026-07-16T01:06:59.002Z
Quality distribution
| Grade | Count |
|---|---|
| A | 2 |
| B | 0 |
| C | 0 |
| D | 0 |
Source articles
The research this prior is synthesized from — each is a full dossier (findings, the models it informs, and what the literature says).
Contributing effect sizes
Effect-size detail pages land with a later sub-ticket; for now, ids link to the filtered list. Browse all rows via /registry/effects.