Differential Reactivity and the Within‐person Job Stressor–Satisfaction Relationship. (18th May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rudolph, Cort W.; Clark, Malissa A.; Jundt, Dustin K.; Baltes, Boris B.
• Is Part Of: Stress and health. Volume 32:Number 5(2016:Dec.)
• Page Start: 449
• Page End: 462
• Publication Date: 2015-05-18
• Subjects: job stressors -- job satisfaction -- experience sampling -- differential reactivity; Medicine and psychology -- Periodicals; Stress (Physiology) -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Stress -- Periodicals; Health -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Stress, Psychological -- Periodicals; Médecine et psychologie -- Périodiques; Stress -- Périodiques; Médecine -- Périodiques; 616.98
• DOI: 10.1002/smi.2641
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-3005

Abstract

Abstract: An experience sampling methodology was used to study the direct and conditional within‐person relationship between job stressors and job satisfaction. One hundred and one full‐time administrative staff completed momentary measures of job stressors and job satisfaction three times a day on six different workdays over a 3‐week period ( N = 1818 observations). Multilevel random coefficients models were specified, and the results suggest that within‐person stressors are negatively related to within‐person job satisfaction. These results stand when controlling for the effects of time, demographics, work characteristics, baseline levels of job stressors and satisfaction, and between‐person effects of job stressors. Furthermore, consistent with the differential reactivity model, the results suggest that the observed within‐person stressors–satisfaction relationship is conditional upon locus of control and positive affect. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.