A Specification Issue in Job Satisfaction Research

What Happens to Job Satisfaction Models When Workers Place High Value on Increasing Their Satisfaction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2515917
AutoresRichard J Caston (University of Denver), Rita Braito (University of Denver)
Año1985
Volumen28
Número2
Páginas175-197
Fecha de publicación1985-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1389056
OpenAlexW2087955741
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas8

Prevailing theories of job satisfaction assume that the pursuit of job satisfaction is an important employment goal to workers. The central questions asked here are as follows: (1) Is this assumption tenable? (2) What effects do the violation of this assumption have on the testing of popular models in job satisfaction research? Using data representative of registered nurses in a large metropolitan area, it was found that only about half of the workers rank the pursuit of job satisfaction highly among the employment goals relevant to their work places. Furthermore, it was found that much more variance can be explained in job satisfaction among workers who value increased job satisfaction highly than can be explained among workers who do not value it as highly. When workers' value for increased job satisfaction is used as a moderator variable, it is found to have methodological and substantive significance for the sort of evidence that can be obtained using standard models of job satisfaction

Economics · Job attitude · Job design · Job performance · Job satisfaction · Metropolitan area · Moderation · Statistics · Customer Service Quality and Loyalty · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being