Adaptation-level theory, opponent process theory, and dispositions: An integrated approach to the stability of job satisfaction

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bowling, NA; Beehr, TA; Wagner, SH; Libkuman, TM
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Wright State University Dayton; Central Michigan University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.6.1044
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1044-1053
• 关键词: job satisfaction; job attitudes; DISPOSITIONS; opponent process theory; adaptation-level theory

摘要

Research suggests that the stability of job satisfaction is partially the result of dispositions (J. J. Connolly & C. Viswesvaran, 2000; C. Dormann & D. Zapf, 2001; T. A. Judge & J. E. Bono, 2001a; T. A. Judge, D. Heller, & M. K. Mount, 2002). Opponent process theory (R. L. Solomon & J. D. Corbit, 1973, 1974) and adaptation-level theory (H. Helson, 1948) are alternative explanations of this stability that explain how environmental effects on job satisfaction dissipate across time. On the basis of an integration of these explanations, the authors propose that dispositions (a) influence employees' equilibrium or adaptation level of job satisfaction, (b) influence employees' sensitivity to workplace events, and (c) influence the speed at which job satisfaction returns to equilibrium after one is exposed to a workplace event. Research and applied implications are discussed.