Personality, Work Environment and Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Study Based on Supplementary Fit

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the supplementary model of person-environment congruence, this study tests the impact of occupational environment on the relationship between personality and job satisfaction. In order to solve the problem that the occupational environment classification in the past is either too specific or too abstract, study 1 focuses on Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments, and divides 376 occupations into four categories by latent profile analysis: integrated management, physical operation, research analysis and content expression. Study 2 explores the impact of personality on job satisfaction based on the four occupational categories obtained in study 1. Results show that, in integrated management occupations, extraversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability are negatively related to openness of experience and positively related to job satisfaction; in physical operation occupations, extraversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability are positively related to job satisfaction; in research analysis occupations, emotional stability related positively to job satisfaction; in content expression occupations, extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness are positively related to job satisfaction.

Key words: personality, work environment, occupation classification, job satisfaction

Zhu Hui, Weng Qingxiong. Personality, Work Environment and Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Study Based on Supplementary Fit[J]. Management Review, 2023, 35(3): 207-219.

References

[1] Locke E. A. What Is Job Satisfaction?[J]. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1969,4(4):309-336
[2] Locke E. A. The Nature and Causes of Job Satisfaction[M].
In Dunnette M. D.(Ed.) Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Chicago:Rand McNally,
1976
[3] Sutin A. R., Costa
P. T., Miech R., et al. Personality and Career Success:Concurrent and Longitudinal Relations[J]. European Journal of Personality, 2009,23(2):71-84
[4] Balouch R., Hassan F. Determinants of Job Satisfaction and Its Impact on Employee Performance and Turnover Intentions[J]. International Journal of Learning and Development, 2014,4(2):120-140
[5] Swaminathan S., Jawahar P. D. Job Satisfaction as a Predictor of Organizational Citizenship Behavior:An Empirical Study[J]. Global Journal of Business Research, 2013,7(1):71-80
[6] Judge T. A., Weiss H. M., Kammeyer-Mueller J. D., et al. Job Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, and Job Affect:A Century of Continuity and of Change[J]. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2017,102(3):356-374
[7] Alegre I., Mas-Machuca M., Berbegal-Mirabent J. Antecedents of Employee Job Satisfaction:Do They Matter?[J]. Journal of Business Research, 2016,69(4):1390-1395
[8] Aziri B. Job Satisfaction:A Literature Review[J]. Management Research and Practice, 2011,3(4):77-86
[9] Lu H., Zhao Y., While A. Job Satisfaction among Hospital Nurses:A Literature Review[J]. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2019,94:21-31
[10] Agbozo G. K., Owusu I. S., Hoedoafia M. A., et al. The Effect of Work Environment on Job Satisfaction:Evidence from the Banking Sector in Ghana[J]. Journal of Human Resource Management, 2017,5(1):12-18
[11] Avery R. E., Smillie L. D., Fife-Schaw C. R. Employee Achievement Orientations and Personality as Predictors of Job Satisfaction Facets[J]. Personality and Individual Differences, 2015,76:56-61
[12] Li N., Liang J., Crant J. M. The Role of Proactive Personality in Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behavior:A Relational Perspective[J]. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010,95(2):395-404
[13] Meeusen V. C. H., Brown-Mahoney C., Van Dam K., et al. Personality Dimensions and Their Relationship with Job Satisfaction Amongst Dutch Nurse Anaesthetists[J]. Journal of Nursing Management, 2010,18(5):573-581
[14] Templer K. J. Five-Factor Model of Personality and Job Satisfaction:The Importance of Agreeableness in a Tight and Collectivistic Asian Society[J]. Applied Psychology, 2012,61(1):114-129
[15] Mathieu C. Personality and Job Satisfaction:The Role of Narcissism[J]. Personality and Individual Differences, 2013,55(6):650-654
[16] Mróz J., Kaleta K. Relationships between Personality, Emotional Labor, Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction in Service Professions[J]. International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2016,29(5):767-782
[17] Maggiori C., Johnston C. S., Rossier J. Contribution of Personality, Job Strain, and Occupational Self-Efficacy to Job Satisfaction in Different Occupational Contexts[J]. Journal of Career Development, 2016,43(3):244-259
[18] Lounsbury J. W., Loveland J. M., Sundstrom E. D., et al. An Investigation of Personality Traits in Relation to Career Satisfaction[J]. Journal of Career Assessment, 2003,11(3):287-307
[19] Hayes B., Douglas C., Bonner A. Work Environment, Job Satisfaction, Stress and Burnout among Haemodialysis Nurses[J]. Journal of Nursing Management, 2015,23(5):588-598
[20] Woods S. A., Wille B., Wu C., et al. The Influence of Work on Personality Trait Development:The Demands-Affordances Transactional (DATA) Model, an Integrative Review, and Research Agenda[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2019,110:258-271
[21] Winkelmann L., Winkelmann R. Personality, Work, and Satisfaction:Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel[J]. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2008,3(4):266-275
[22] Jain R., Kaur S. Impact of Work Environment on Job Satisfaction[J]. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2014,4(1):1-8
[23] Holland J. L. Making Vocational Choices:A Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments[M]. Odessa:Psychological Assessment Resources, 1997
[24] Mobley W. H., Ramsay R. S. Hierarchical Clustering on the Basis of Inter-job Similarity as a Tool in Validity Generalization[J]. Personnel Psychology, 1973,26(2):213-225
[25] Cleland C. M., Rothschild L., Haslam N. Detecting Latent Taxa:Monte Carlo Comparison of Taxometric, Mixture Model, and Clustering Procedures[J]. Psychological Reports, 2000,87(1):37-47
[26] Mclachlan G. J., Peel D. Finite Mixture Models[M]. New York:John Wiley&Sons, 2000
[27] 邱皓政.潜在类别模型的原理与技术:Principles and Techniques[M].北京:教育科学出版社, 2008
[28] Collins L. M., Lanza S. T. Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis:With Applications in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences[M]. New York:John Wiley&Sons, 2010
[29] Little R. J. A., Rubin D. B. Statistical Analysis with Missing Data[M]. New York:John Wiley&Sons, 2019
[30] Vermunt J. K., Magidson J. Latent Class Cluster Analysis[J]. Applied Latent Class Analysis, 2002,11:89-106
[31] Adams M. A., Sallis J. F., Kerr J., et al. Neighborhood Environment Profiles Related to Physical Activity and Weight Status:A Latent Profile Analysis[J]. Preventive Medicine, 2011,52(5):326-331
[32] Gabriel A. S., Daniels M. A., Diefendorff J. M., et al. Emotional Labor Actors:A Latent Profile Analysis of Emotional Labor Strategies[J]. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2015,100(3):863-879
[33] Merz E. L., Roesch S. C. A Latent Profile Analysis of the Five Factor Model of Personality:Modeling Trait Interactions[J]. Personality and Individual Differences, 2011,51(8):915-919
[34] Akaike H. Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle[M]. New York:Springer, 1998
[35] Celeux G., Soromenho G.. An Entropy Criterion for Assessing the Number of Clusters in a Mixture Model[J]. Journal of Classification, 1996,13(2):195-212
[36] Lo Y., Mendell N. R., Rubin D. B. Testing the Number of Components in a Normal Mixture[J]. Biometrika, 2001,88(3):767-778
[37] Mccutcheon A. L. Latent Class Analysis[M]. California:Sage, 1987
[38] Schwarz G. Estimating the Dimension of a Model[J]. The Annals of Statistics, 1978,6(2):461-464
[39] Miller H. A., Turner K., Henderson C. E. Psychopathology of Sex offenders:A Comparison of Males and Females Using Latent Profile Analysis[J]. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2009,36(8):778-792
[40] 王孟成,毕向阳.潜变量建模与Mplus应用·进阶篇[M].重庆:重庆大学出版社, 2018
[41] Muchinsky P. M., Monahan C. J. What Is Person-Environment Congruence?Supplementary versus Complementary Models of Fit[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1987,31(3):268-277
[42] Guan Y., Deng H., Risavy S. D., et al. Supplementary Fit, Complementary Fit, and Work-Related Outcomes:The Role of Self-construal[J]. Applied Psychology, 2011,60(2):286-310
[43] Kristof A. L. Person-Organization Fit:An Integrative Review of Its Conceptualizations, Measurement, and Implications[J]. Personnel Psychology, 1996,49(1):1-49
[44] Liu B., Liu J., Hu J. Person-Organization Fit, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intention:An Empirical Study in the Chinese Public Sector[J]. Social Behavior and Personality:An International Journal, 2010,38(5):615-625
[45] Seibert S. E., Kraimer M. L. The Five-Factor Model of Personality and Career Success[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2001,58(1):1-21
[46] Ashton M. C., Lee K., Paunonen S. V. What Is the Central Feature of Extraversion?Social Attention versus Reward Sensitivity[J]. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002,83(1):245-252
[47] Judge T. A., Higgins C. A., Thoresen C. J., et al. The Big Five Personality Traits, General Mental Ability, and Career Success Across the Life Span[J]. Personnel Psychology, 1999,52(3):621-652
[48] Barrick M. R., Mount M. K., Gupta R. Meta-analysis of the Relationship between the Five-Factor Model of Personality and Holland's Occupational Types[J]. Personnel Psychology, 2003,56(1):45-74
[49] Gelissen J., De Graaf P. M. Personality, Social Background, and Occupational Career Success[J]. Social Science Research, 2006,35(3):702-726
[50] Liu D., Campbell W. K. The Big Five Personality Traits, Big Two Metatraits and Social Media:A Meta-analysis[J]. Journal of Research in Personality, 2017,70:229-240
[51] Diedrich J., Jauk E., Silvia P. J., et al. Assessment of Real-Life Creativity:The Inventory of Creative Activities and Achievements (ICAA)[J]. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2018,12(3):304-316
[52] Gosling S. D., Rentfrow P. J., Swann Jr W. B. A Very Brief Measure of the Big-Five Personality Domains[J]. Journal of Research in Personality, 2003,37(6):504-528
[53] Erol R. Y., Orth U. Self-esteem Development from Age 14 to 30 Years:A Longitudinal Study[J]. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011,101(3):607-619
[54] Ehrhart M. G., Ehrhart K. H., Roesch S. C., et al. Testing the Latent Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory[J]. Personality and Individual Differences, 2009,47(8):900-905
[55] Boudreau J. W., Boswell W. R., Judge T. A. Effects of Personality on Executive Career Success in the United States and Europe[J]. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2001,58(1):53-81
[56] Johnson J. W. A Heuristic Method for Estimating the Relative Weight of Predictor Variables in Multiple Regression[J]. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2000,35(1):1-19
[57] 谢宝国,龙立荣.优势分析方法及其应用[J].心理科学, 2006,29(4):922-925
[58] Budescu D. V. Dominance Analysis:A New Approach to the Problem of Relative Importance of Predictors in Multiple Regression[J]. Psychological Bulletin, 1993,114(3):542-551
[59] George J. M. The Role of Personality in Organizational Life:Issues and Evidence[J]. Journal of Management, 1992,18(2):185-213
[60] Connolly J. J., Viswesvaran C. The Role of Affectivity in Job Satisfaction:A Meta-analysis[J]. Personality and Individual Differences, 2000,29(2):265-281
[61] Zhai Q., Willis M., O'shea B., et al. Big Five Personality Traits, Job Satisfaction and Subjective Wellbeing in China[J]. International Journal of Psychology, 2013,48(6):1099-1108
[62] Organ D. W., Lingl A. Personality, Satisfaction, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior[J]. The Journal of Social Psychology, 1995,135(3):339-350
[63] Riggio R. E. Assessment of Basic Social Skills[J]. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986,51(3):649-660
[64] Judge T. A., Zapata C. P. The Person-Situation Debate Revisited:Effect of Situation Strength and Trait Activation on the Validity of the Big Five Personality Traits in Predicting Job Performance[J]. Academy of Management Journal, 2015,58(4):1149-1179
[65] Judge T. A., Heller D., Mount M. K. Five-Factor Model of Personality and Job Satisfaction:A Meta-analysis[J]. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2002,87(3):530-541
[66] Schwaba T., Robins R. W., Grijalva E., et al. Does Openness to Experience Matter in Love and Work?Domain, Facet, and Developmental Evidence from a 24-Year Longitudinal Study[J]. Journal of Personality, 2019,87(5):1074-1092
[67] DeNeve K. M., Cooper H. The Happy Personality:A Meta-analysis of 137 Personality Traits and Subjective Well-Being[J]. Psychological Bulletin, 1998,124(2):197-229
[68] Costa P. T., Maccrae R. R. Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI):Professional Manual[M]. Odessa:Psychological Assessment Resources, 1992
[69] Mark G., Ganzach Y. Personality and Internet Usage:A Large-Scale Representative Study of Young Adults[J]. Computers in Human Behavior, 2014,36:274-281