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The Dispositional Sources of Job Satisfaction: A Comparative Test
Author(s) -
Judge Timothy A.,
Heller Daniel,
Klinger Ryan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
applied psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1464-0597
pISSN - 0269-994X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2007.00318.x
Subject(s) - core self evaluations , typology , job satisfaction , psychology , discriminant validity , negative affectivity , social psychology , test (biology) , big five personality traits , job attitude , positive affectivity , personality , job performance , applied psychology , psychometrics , clinical psychology , paleontology , archaeology , internal consistency , biology , history
This study related three personality taxonomies—positive affectivity and negative affectivity (PA and NA), the five‐factor model (the “Big Five”), and core self‐evaluations—to job satisfaction in an integrative test. In a longitudinal design with multi‐source data, results indicated that the traits from all three taxonomies generally were significantly related to job satisfaction, even when the traits and job satisfaction were measured with independent sources. However, when all three typologies were examined concurrently, the core self‐evaluations typology was the only typology that was significantly related to job satisfaction. The study extends research on the validation of these frameworks by assessing convergent and discriminant validity issues, and shows that core self‐evaluations adds to our understanding of the dispositional source of job satisfaction.