Career salience and work salience as moderators of the job satisfaction-life satisfaction relationship
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2000
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Cassim, Farhad Abdul Kader
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Abstract
Different researchers commit themselves to different hypotheses when considering the job satisfaction-life satisfaction (JS-LS) relationship. Some adhere to the spill over hypothesis, others to the compensation hypothesis and still others to the segmentation hypothesis. A fourth perspective asserts that no one single hypothesis is correct but that different hypotheses will be true under different conditions. The latter has paved the way for the consideration of moderator variables of the job satisfaction-life satisfaction relationship. While various constructs have been examined in terms of their capacity as moderator variables, two variables which have not as yet been empirically examined In terms of their capacity as moderators are career salience and work salience. This non-experimental study proposed such an examination In a sample of school teachers located in Lenasia. In terms of the intuitive suggestions made by a few researchers in this area, it was expected that career and work salience would moderate the relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction such that individuals high on each construct would reflect a stronger positive correlation. While this constituted the primary aim of the study, a secondary aim was to investigate the possible moderating influence of different biographical variables on the JS-LS relationship. Results confirmed the moderating influence of work salience. While subjects both high and low in work salience exhibit a significantly positive relationship between JS and LS, this relationship is much more significantly positive for subjects higher in work salience than for subjects lower in work salience. The expectations framed in terms of career salience was dis confirmed with subjects both high and low in career salience exhibiting an equally significant positive correlation. In terms of the biographical variables while subjects who were high and low on certain constructs such as, average age of children or tenure at school, reflected significantly positive correlations between JS-LS, this relationship was much
stronger for subjects higher on these constructs. In terms of the other biographical variables (highest educational qualification, gender, marital status and home language) equally significant positive correlations emerged. The possible theoretical and practical implications of this study , the limitations and suggestions for future research are considered
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A dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts
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Job satisfaction--South Africa, Quality of life--South Africa, Quality of work life--South Africa
Citation
Cassim, Farhad Abdul Kader (2000) career salience and work salience as moderators of the job satisfaction-life satisfaction relationship, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/28913>