Personality and job satisfaction: the mediating role of job characteristics.
This study tested a model of the relationship between core self-evaluations, intrinsic job characteristics, and job satisfaction. Core self-evaluations was assumed to be a broad personality concept manifested in 4 specific traits: self-esteem, generalized self-efficacy, locus of control, and low neuroticism. The model hypothesized that both subjective (perceived) job characteristics and job complexity mediate the relationship between core self-evaluations and job satisfaction. Two studies were conducted to test the model. Results from Study 1 supported the hypothesized model but also suggested that alternative models fit the data well. Results from Study 2 revealed that core self-evaluations measured in childhood and in early adulthood were linked to job satisfaction measured in middle adulthood. Furthermore, in Study 2 job complexity mediated part of the relationship between both assessments of core self-evaluations and job satisfaction.
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Department of Management and Organizations, Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA. tim-judge@uiowa.edu
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Locke
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002140:California; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D010553:Personality Development