title: Differential Reactivity and the Within-person Job Stressor-Satisfaction Relationship.
abstract: An experience sampling methodology was used to study the direct and conditional within-person relationship between job stressors and job satisfaction. One hundred and one full-time administrative staff completed momentary measures of job stressors and job satisfaction three times a day on six different workdays over a 3-week period (N = 1818 observations). Multilevel random coefficients models were specified, and the results suggest that within-person stressors are negatively related to within-person job satisfaction. These results stand when controlling for the effects of time, demographics, work characteristics, baseline levels of job stressors and satisfaction, and between-person effects of job stressors. Furthermore, consistent with the differential reactivity model, the results suggest that the observed within-person stressors-satisfaction relationship is conditional upon locus of control and positive affect. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Cort W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Rudolph
authors.affiliation: The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Malissa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.affiliation: Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Dustin K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Jundt
authors.affiliation: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Boris B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Baltes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: differential reactivity; experience sampling; job satisfaction; job stressors