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An opponent process theory of job satisfaction.
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This article is published in Journal of Applied Psychology.The article was published on 1978-10-01. It has received 111 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Job attitude & Job performance.read more
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Goal constructs in psychology: Structure, process, and content.
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The opponent-process theory of acquired motivation: The costs of pleasure and the benefits of pain.
TL;DR: The opponent-process theory of such new or experiential motives as drug addiction, love, affection and social attachment, and cravings for sensory and aesthetic ex- periences are described and the empirical laws governing the establishment of these new motives are described.
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Stability in the Midst of Change: A Dispositional Approach to Job Attitudes
Barry M. Staw,Jerry Ross +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the notion that job attitudes are rather consistent within individuals, showing stability both over time and across situations, and found that prior attitudes were a stronger predictor of subsequent job satisfaction than either changes in pay or the social status of one's job.
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The dispositional approach to job attitudes: A lifetime longitudinal test.
TL;DR: Staw et al. as discussed by the authors used a longitudinal sample to predict job attitudes in later life and found that dispositional measures significantly predicted job attitudes over a time span of nearly fifty years, and the implications of these findings are discussed in terms of both theories of job attitudes and organizational development activities that attempt to alter employee job satisfactions.
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The Role of Time in Theory and Theory Building
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that time can and should play a more important role because it can change the ontological description and meaning of a theoretical construct and of the relationships between constructs.
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