Replicating and Extending Past Personality/Job Satisfaction Meta-Analyses
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2009
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/08959280902743709
Abstract
A meta-analysis summarizing results of 187 studies reporting cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between job satisfaction and personality is described. The Big Five factor of Neuroticism related most strongly and negatively to job satisfaction (−.25), with the other factors ranging from .16 (Conscientiousness) to −.02 (Openness to Experience). Job satisfaction was positively related to internal locus of control (LOC), positive affectivity, and Type A (achievement striving). Results showed negative relationships with external LOC, trait anger, Machiavellianism, negative affectivity/trait anxiety, and Type A (global and impatience/irritability). Job satisfaction had a very weak, negative correlation with narcissism that was indistinguishable from zero. These relationships were similar, although the effect sizes were generally not as strong, when examined in a longitudinal context. The distinctiveness of Extraversion and positive affectivity, as well as that of global and composite measures of job satisfaction, are discussed.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Human Performance, v. 22, issue 2, p. 156-189
Scholar Commons Citation
Bruk-Lee, Valentina; Khoury, Haitham A.; Nixon, Ashley E.; Goh, Angeline; and Spector, Paul E., "Replicating and Extending Past Personality/Job Satisfaction Meta-Analyses" (2009). Psychology Faculty Publications. 724.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/724
