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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.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate three ordinal regression models to clear out the determinants of job satisfaction in the first job for Flemish 23-year old workers, and find that higher educated people seem more satisfied than lower educated people because they get a better job.
Abstract: Relying on survey data for Flemish 23 year old workers, we estimate three ordinal regression models to clear out the determinants of job satisfaction in the first job. Special attention goes to the influence of education. The results indicate that higher educated people seem more satisfied than lower educated people because they get a better job. When we control for all characteristics of the job, a negative relationship shows up, with higher educated people being less happy about their first job. Our results also suggest that giving young employees the possibility to use their skills in a varied job contributes strongly to job satisfaction. The relationship between educational mismatch and job satisfaction is ambiguous. Overeducation has a clear negative impact on job satisfaction, but for undereducation we obtain different results for men and women. In contrast to existing literature we also find a gender effect for young workers and a positive impact of working in a large company. We observe no impact of the occupational status of the parents nor of the characteristics of the employment contract.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the mediating role of task complexity in the relationship between core self-evaluations (CSE) and satisfaction and found that people with higher CSE actually choose/seek higher levels of complexity on their tasks, which directly or indirectly increases their task/work satisfaction.
112 citations
TL;DR: The results generally confirmed the previous conclusions of Hackman and Lawler (1971) that individuals who have higher self-actualization need strength are potentially better candidates for job enrichment.
111 citations
111 citations
TL;DR: The authors investigated the role that core self-evaluations (CSE) plays on the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) and health functioning and found that individuals who have positive emotions and/or are satisfied with their lives and simultaneously are high CSE are more likely to demonstrate good physical health functioning.
110 citations