title: A lengthy look at the daily grind: time series analysis of events, mood, stress, and satisfaction.
abstract: The present study investigated processes by which job stress and satisfaction unfold over time by examining the relations between daily stressful events, mood, and these variables. Using a Web-based daily survey of stressor events, perceived strain, mood, and job satisfaction completed by 14 university workers, 1,060 occasions of data were collected. Transfer function analysis, a multivariate version of time series analysis, was used to examine the data for relationships among the measured variables after factoring out the contaminating influences of serial dependency. Results revealed a contrast effect in which a stressful event associated positively with higher strain on the same day and associated negatively with strain on the following day. Perceived strain increased over the course of a semester for a majority of participants, suggesting that effects of stress build over time. Finally, the data were consistent with the notion that job satisfaction is a distal outcome that is mediated by perceived strain.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA. julie.fuller@pepsi.com
authors.forename: Julie A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Fuller
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Stanton
authors.forename: Gwenith G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spitzmuller
authors.forename: Steven S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: Patricia C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D017132:Workplace