The role of the happiness philosophy and core self-evaluations in defining job satisfaction

What is it about?

Our paper analyses sources of job satisfaction. A cross-sectional study in two variants: an online questionnaire (n=642) and its paper version (n=635), were used to measure the impact of core self-evaluations, hedonism and eudaimonism on job satisfaction. To strengthen the dependent variable (job satisfaction) measurement, two sources for this data were used: the target person’s self-assessment and his or her significant other’s evaluation. The results show that the significant other’s assessment can be a valuable source of information on the target person’s job satisfaction. On top of that, hierarchical regression has shown that both happiness philosophies: eudaimonism and hedonism have predictive power over the assessment of job satisfaction based on core self-evaluations.

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Why is it important?

Our study’s most important notion is that there is a close significant relation between self-reported and a significant other-reported job satisfaction. Regardless of the person reporting about his or her close one, we find a high match between those two parallel indicators. Additionally, the results show clearly that both the Core Self-Evaluations and Happiness Philosophy – Eudaimonia are important Job Satisfaction predictors..