TITLE:
Anticipation of the Development of Job Satisfaction—Construct and Validation Results of an Indicator for Well-Being at the Workplace
AUTHORS:
Paul Jiménez, Anita Dunkl, Regina Stolz
KEYWORDS:
Anticipation of the Development of Job Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Discriminant Validity, Core Self-Evaluations, Structural Equation Modelling
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.7,
June
12,
2015
ABSTRACT: In recent
research on job satisfaction, the aspect of time and dynamics is gaining more
and more attention. The Anticipation of the Development of Job Satisfaction
(AD) is seen as a concept that looks at the estimations concerning the
development of job satisfaction facets in the future. More specifically, as job
satisfaction can be seen as an indicator for well-being, AD can be regarded as
the estimation of future well-being at the workplace. The aim of this study is
to present this construct and to investigate whether it can be empirically
separated from related constructs. Therefore, the influences of certain state
and trait characteristics connected to well-being were in the focal point of
this study. In particular, the influences of job satisfaction, life
satisfaction, learned helplessness, the core self-evaluations and state anxiety
on anticipation of development of job satisfaction were analysed. The study was
made in an Austrian institution of higher education with 213 employees
participating. The results of structural equation modelling showed that the
level of anticipation of the development of job satisfaction was a significant
predictor for job satisfaction. Furthermore, satisfying indicators for
discriminant validity to other regarded constructs could be found.