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This study has an objective in identifying the effect of positive psychological capital of professions in the beauty care service industry on their job satisfaction. To carry out the empirical study on the related factors and to provide directions for their positive and healthy personal development, a survey was conducted from May 10, 2014 to June 5, 2014 targeting a total of 397 beauty care professions (in hair care, skin care, make-up and nail care) in Seoul and Gyeonggi area and all of them were analyzed. Overall, in the relationship between the positive psychological capital and job satisfaction,‘resilience’, one of the positive psychological capital’s subfactor, was identified to have a significant effect on the‘work environment’ satisfaction. In the same aspects,‘self-efficacy’ had a significant effect on the satisfaction of‘wage and welfare benefits’ and‘optimism’on the satisfaction of‘interpersonal relations.’According to the results, not only the task-oriented skills needed to improve job competence of individuals but the action of individual’s positive psychology increases task-related satisfaction. As the task-related satisfaction increases, it can have a positive effect on the interpersonal relations, performance improvement and achievement of target. In other words, it is everyone’s ultimate goal to have positive work ethic or self-pride in performing their duties with their positive psychology as a strength. If so, the positive psychology would contribute to increasing the efficiency of human resource and the needs of positive psychology capital from the beauty care professions and their awareness would promote not only the individual’s development but that of the whole industry in the future.