When Is Success Not Satisfying? Integrating Regulatory Focus and Approach/Avoidance Motivation Theories to Explain the Relation Between Core Self-Evaluation and Job Satisfaction

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ferris, D. Lance; Johnson, Russell E.; Rosen, Christopher C.; Djurdjevic, Emilija; Chang, Chu-Hsiang (Daisy); Tan, James A.
• 署名单位: Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Michigan State University; Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Saint Cloud State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0029776
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 342-353
• 关键词: core self-evaluation; approach/avoidance; REGULATORY FOCUS; job satisfaction; motivation

摘要

Integrating implications from regulatory focus and approach/avoidance motivation theories, we present a framework wherein motivational orientations toward positive (approach motivation orientation) or negative (avoidance motivation orientation) stimuli interact with workplace success to mediate the relation of core self-evaluation (CSE) with job satisfaction. Using data collected from supervisor-subordinate dyads (Sample 1) and time-lagged data (Sample 2), we found that the results from two studies indicated that the interaction of workplace success and avoidance motivation orientation mediated relations of CSE with job satisfaction. Although approach motivation orientation did not interact with workplace success, it did mediate the CSE-job satisfaction relation on its own. Implications for the CSE and approach/avoidance literatures are discussed.