Life and job satisfaction: Is the job central?

Schmitt, Neal; Mellon, Phyllis M.

doi:10.1016/0001-8791(80)90037-8

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“…The compensation model assumes that when a person is not satisfied at work, they will try to correct this situation through stimulating activities outside work (Rousseau, 1978;Schmitt and Bedian, 1982;Schmitt and Mellon, 1980;Staines, 1980). Here again, Staines' (1980) analysis tends to confirm the compensation model in certain circumstances and shows that certain spheres of work life correlate negatively with areas outside work.…”

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Quality of Work Life: Theoretical and Methodological Problems, and Presentation of a New Model and Measuring Instrument

2006

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Quality of Work Life: Theoretical and Methodological Problems, and Presentation of a New Model and Measuring Instrument

2006

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“…Considerable research has examined the zero-order relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Rice, Near, and -Hunt (1980) reviewed 23 studies reporting more than 375 statistical relationships between some measure of job satisfaction and some measure of either satisfaction with life overall or satisfaction with a specific facet of life (e.g., satisfaction with marriage, family, or leisure time Rice et al review (e.g., Bamundo & Kopelman, 1980;Chacko, 1983;Schmitt & Bedeian, 1982;Schmitt & Mellon, 1980 Moderators other than gender were considered in only four studies identified by Rice et al (1980). Subsequent to the Rice et al review, Bamundo and Kopelman (1980) provided a fifth study of this type.…”

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Job Importance as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction

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Basic and Applied Social Psychology

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“…Somewhat stronger findings were reported in earlier studies that used somewhat smaller samples with shorter time lags (Chacko, 1983;Hart, 1999;Orpen, 1978;Schmitt and Mellon, 1980), which may have decreased the reliability of their results (Judge and Watanabe, 1993). On the other hand, five years may be too long a lag period to permit a fair test of causal relationship between work attitudes and attitudes toward life overall, as was used in the larger sample studied by Judge and Watanabe (1993) and Near (1984).…”

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Spillover Between Work Attitudes and Overall Life Attitudes: Myth or Reality?

Rode

Near

2005

Soc Indic Res

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It is widely believed that work attitudes influence attitudes toward life overall. We investigated a multivariate model of work attitudes and overall life attitudes using survey data from two nationally representative (U.S.) data sets, one cross-sectional and one longitudinal. Including a comprehensive set of control variables, we found only weak support for the "attitudes spillover" perspective, suggesting that employees often compartmentalize or "segregate" their work and nonwork lives. We consider theoretical and practical implications of these findings.Researchers continue to assert that work life attitudes influence or spill over to overall life attitudes (e.g., Luthans, 2002) despite evidence to the contrary. Support for the spillover hypothesis comes from a classic review of the relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction which concluded that the average zero order correlation between the two variables was 0.44, when corrected for attenuation, or explaining about 17% of the variance (Tait et al., 1989). However, results of multivariate analyses, controlling for the effects of living and working conditions on both variables, have indicated that the correlation between life and job satisfaction is much smaller, explaining one percent to 10% of the overall variance (e.g., Andrews and Withey, 1976;Campbell et al., 1976;Near et al., 1983Near et al., , 1984. Additionally, few studies have examined the causality of the relationship, with longitudinal analyses. Using structural equation modeling, Judge and Watanabe (1993) found that job satisfaction at Time 1 predicted life satisfaction five years later, but the effects were small from a practical standpoint (β = 0.07, p < 0.05). Using cross-lag partial correlation analysis and path analysis completed Portions of these analyses were presented at the meetings of the Midwest Academy of Management, 2002, Indianapolis. We would like to thank Tim Judge for his comments on an earlier draft of this paper. © Springer 2005 Social Indicators Research (2005) 70: 79-109

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Life and job satisfaction: Is the job central?

Cited by 61 publications

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Quality of Work Life: Theoretical and Methodological Problems, and Presentation of a New Model and Measuring Instrument

Quality of Work Life: Theoretical and Methodological Problems, and Presentation of a New Model and Measuring Instrument

Job Importance as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction

Spillover Between Work Attitudes and Overall Life Attitudes: Myth or Reality?

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