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The Emotion Regulation Roots of Job Satisfaction
Hector P Madrid1, Eduardo Barros2, Cristian A Vasquez3
1School of Management, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Frontiers in Psychology
|December 17, 2020
Summary
Employees manage their emotions through emotion regulation, which impacts job satisfaction. Affect-improving strategies boost satisfaction, while affect-worsening ones decrease it, influencing overall work attitudes.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Workplace Behavior
Background:
- Job satisfaction is crucial for desirable work outcomes.
- Psychological processes, like emotion regulation, underlying job satisfaction require further investigation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine the role of employee emotion regulation in job satisfaction.
- To test the hypotheses that affect-improving and affect-worsening emotion regulation influence job satisfaction through positive and negative affect.
Main Methods:
- Diary study design.
- Involved professionals from diverse jobs and organizations.
- Mediational analysis to test hypotheses.
Main Results:
- Employee affect-improving emotion regulation positively impacts job satisfaction.
- Affect-worsening emotion regulation negatively impacts job satisfaction, though with a more complex relationship.
- The experience of positive and negative affect mediates these relationships.
Conclusions:
- Employee emotion regulation is a significant factor in job satisfaction.
- Findings expand the literature on job satisfaction and emotion regulation.
- Informs organizational psychology and people management practices for fostering positive work attitudes.
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