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.

The Association Between Stress from Personal Relationships and Job Satisfaction in Hospitals Employees

Abstract: This study aims to identify the association between stress from personal relations and job satisfaction in order to contribute to the development of strategies to promote job satisfaction. The subjects of this study were 361 hospital employees who were interviewed with the use of a self-essay type questionnaire. To understand the association between job satisfaction and stress, this study conducted a multi-regression analysis for sub-variables of gender, marriage, education, and stress from personal relationships which were statistically significant variables in the simple analysis as independent variables. The results were: The job satisfaction of female subjects were significantly lower than that for male respondents. For sub-areas of stress from personal relationships, the fewer the relationships with superiors and colleagues, the higher the job satisfaction. In conclusion, the more positive personal relationships the subjects had, the higher the job satisfaction they had, it is suggested that job satisfaction will increase when stress from personal relationships is gradually decreased.

The development of trait greed during young adulthood: A simultaneous investigation of environmental effects and negative core beliefs

Abstract: Recent models of personality development have emphasized the role of the environment in terms of selection and socialization effects and their interaction. Our study provides partial evidence for these models and, crucially, extends these models by adding a person variable: Core beliefs, which are defined as mental representations of experiences that individuals have while pursuing need-fulfilling goals. Specifically, we report results from a longitudinal investigation of the development of trait greed across time. Based on data from the German Personality Panel, we analyzed data on 1,965 young adults on up to 4 occasions, spanning a period of more than 3 years. According to our results, negative core beliefs that have so far been proposed only in the clinical literature (e.g., being unloved or being insecure) contributed to the development of trait greed, indicating that striving for material goals might be a substitute for unmet needs in the past. Additionally, greedy individuals more often self-selected themselves into business-related environments, which presumably allow them to fulfill their greed-related need to earn a lot of money. Our results expose important mechanisms for trait greed development. Regarding personality development in general, core beliefs were identified as an important variable for future theory building.

Contribution of work ability and core self-evaluations to worker health.

Abstract: Background Work ability (WA) concerns the capacity to manage job demands in relation to physical and psychological resources. Core self-evaluations (CSE) refer to a composite personality construct comprising self-esteem, locus of control, self-efficacy and emotional stability traits. Studies have shown the independent contribution of WA and CSE to work outcomes, yet none has explored their additive contribution, when applied together, to identify workers at risk of impaired health and performance-related outcomes. Aims The aim was to explore the contribution of WA and CSE to explaining variance in psychological distress and work engagement in a sample of UK manufacturing sector workers. Method A self-report questionnaire containing validated measures of WA, CSE, psychological distress and work engagement was administered to employees in four UK manufacturing organizations. Bivariate correlations were calculated to identify patterns of relationships between the variables and hierarchical linear regression analyses performed to examine the incremental contribution of WA and CSE to the target variables. Results Analyses were conducted on data contributed by 311 workers (21% response rate). WA accounted for around one-quarter of the variance in psychological distress and around one-fifth of the variance in work engagement. The addition of CSE explained a further 10% (psychological distress) and 7% (work engagement) of the variance. Conclusions These exploratory findings suggest that WA and CSE might be useful in the identification of workers at risk of poor psychological well-being and work effectiveness in UK manufacturing. Longitudinal sector-representative studies are required to establish the constructs’ predictive power.

How Job Resources Influence the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction.

Abstract: The present meta-analysis has demonstrated that: First, emotional intelligence (EI) is positively related to job resources (overall EI: ρ = .27; ability EI: ρ = .24; self-report EI: ρ = .27; ...