Dispositional effects on job and life satisfaction: The role of core evaluations.

• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.83.1.17
• Publication Date: 2005-09-22T16:46:00Z
• Authors: Timothy A. Judge; Edwin A. Locke; Cathy C. Durham; Avraham N. Kluger
• Keywords: Adult; Male; 05 social sciences; Personal Satisfaction; Job Satisfaction; Self Concept; Affect; 0502 economics and business; 8. Economic growth; Quality of Life; Humans; Female; Temperament

Past research has suggested that dispositional sources of job satisfaction can be traced to measures of affective temperament. The present research focused on another concept, core self-evaluations, which were hypothesized to comprise self-esteem, generalized self-efficacy, locus of control, and nonneuroticism. A model hypothesized that core self-evaluations would have direct effects on job and life satisfaction. It also was hypothesized that core self-evaluations would have indirect effects on job satisfaction. Data were collected from 3 independent samples in 2 countries, using dual source methodology. Results indicated that core self-evaluations had direct and indirect effects on job and life satisfaction. The statistical and logical relationship among core evaluations, affective disposition, and satisfaction was explored.