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Job satisfaction is defined as “an internal state that is expressed by affectively and/or cognitively evaluating an experienced job with some degree of favor or disfavor” (Brief, 1998, p. 86). It is one dimension of overall satisfaction with life, happiness, or subjective well-being. As other subjective measures of quality of life, job satisfaction is collected in surveys through self-reports of participants. Data collection is made using a hierarchical scale ranging from very satisfied with your current job to not satisfied at all.
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As much as job satisfaction constitutes a subdomain of overall life satisfaction, subjective well-being, or happiness, it consists itself of several subdomains (Kalleberg & Loscocco, 1983). Over the life course the importance of subdomains of job satisfaction changes in the view of individuals. Commonly the following domains are combined into an overall measure of job satisfaction. These are directly...
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Schömann, K. (2014). Employee Satisfaction. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_861
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