title: Relationship between cynicism and job satisfaction: exploration of mechanisms.
abstract: Personality traits related to evaluation of other people and the world are important to study in relation to job satisfaction, which itself is an evaluation of various facets of a job, including the social dimensions. Accordingly, the relationship between cynicism and job satisfaction was studied. Cynicism was expected to be negatively related to job satisfaction, employees' perceptions of job enrichment, quality of leader-member exchange, and support from coworkers. Survey data from 105 employees in a diverse set of organizations (M age = 48 yr.; 50% women; M work experience = 28 yr.; 73% had >16 yr. education) were subjected to hierarchical regression. Individuals high in Cynicism were likely to have lower job satisfaction, job enrichment, quality of leader-member exchange, and perceptions of co-worker support.
authors.affiliation: College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6025, USA. abhishek.srivastava@mail.wvu.edu
authors.forename: Abhishek
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D003469:Culture; D008192:Deception; D004648:Employee Grievances; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010559:Personnel Management; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception; D012944:Social Support; D013694:Temperament; D035502:Trust