Core self-evaluations

About: Core self-evaluations is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1483 publications have been published within this topic receiving 95787 citations.

A study of age and tenure as it pertains to job satisfaction

Abstract: Over the past 15 years, an understanding of the dimensions of job satisfaction has become recognized as a significant factor for the effective management of many occupational groups. As librarians continue to turn their attention toward managerial issues, it is important that job satisfaction be studied within the context of the profession. The purpose of this study is twofold. (1) to review both essays and empirical research that pertain to the management of librarians, and (2) to describe an empirical study that analyzes the relationship between age, tenure, and job satisfaction for a sample of 64 professional librarians. The results revealed that the librarians studied experienced relatively constant levels of job satisfaction across three different age and tenure categories. The primary job dissatisfaction noted related to age and satisfaction with supervision and co-workers.

Work and the quality of life.

Abstract: Wilensky's (1960, 1961) proposition that the integration of work into one's total life is contingent upon the technological and social organization of the work was tested in a national probability sample of approximately 1,025 men and women. In line with Wilensky's arguments, it was found that a composit measure of job complexity and occupational status moderated the job satisfaction-life satisfaction relationship. Specifically, the relationship between job- and life satisfaction was greatest for individuals with occupations characterized as complex and high in status. The magnitude of the detected moderating effects, as well as that of job satisfaction per se, on life satisfaction, were small, however. It is argued that the scope of variables considered in attempts to understand the relationship between life- and job satisfaction should be expanded and suggestions for future research are offered.

CORE SELF-EVALUATIONS, ASPIRATIONS, SUCCESS, AND PERSISTENCE An Attributional Model

Abstract: The study of attributions and personality are two of the most well-developed areas in all of psychology, but there are only limited efforts to integrate these areas due to the division between experimental and correlational psychology. The literature on attributions has also been divided into affective and cognitive camps. To achieve rapprochement between these areas, a model is developed that proposes that attributions are affected by stable core selfevaluations, and that these attributions, in turn, affect more proximal selfevaluations. The resultant model provides an opportunity to restore the concept of process to a central role in personality research and understand how stable individual differences might affect attributions for specific events. Understanding causal relationships is fundamental to the way that human beings make sense of and attempt to adapt to their worlds, even though for

Race and Job Satisfaction in the Military

Abstract: This paper questions the validity of past studies of job satisfaction for minority groups. Past studies relegate the racial issue to the initial determinant of status attainment deficiencies which indirectly influence job satisfaction. On a sample of over 9,000 military men, including almost 1,500 blacks, three questions are examined: (1) Do past findings on job satisfaction apply to the military setting? (2) Are the conditions contributing to job satisfaction for blacks qualitatively different from the conditions contributing to white job satisfaction? (3) What are the implications of the emergence of separatist attitudes among blacks for work experiences in an integrated setting? The black-white differences uncovered are traced from the historical development in race relation in America, pivoting on the intense racial experience of the 1960s. Implications for other minority groups are discussed.