Dispositional effects on job and life satisfaction: The role of core evaluations.
研究提出核心自我评价（包括自尊、一般自我效能、控制点和非神经质）直接影响工作满意度和生活满意度，并通过三个独立样本验证了其直接和间接效应。
Past research has suggested that dispositional sources of job satisfaction can be traced to measures of affective temperament.The present research focused on another concept, core self-evaluations, which were hypothesized to comprise self-esteem, generalized selfefficacy, locus of control, and nonneuroticism.A model hypothesized that core selfevaluations would have direct effects on job and life satisfaction.It also was hypothesized that core self-evaluations would have indirect effects on job satisfaction.Data were collected from 3 independent samples in 2 countries, using dual source methodology.Results indicated that core self-evaluations had direct and indirect effects on job and life satisfaction.The statistical and logical relationship among core evaluations, affective disposition, and satisfaction was explored.In recent years increasing attention has been given to the hypothesis that factors within the individual, divorced from the attributes of the job, affect the degree of satisfaction experienced on the job.These factors, called dispositions, also are asserted to affect life satisfaction.Although the possible effects of dispositions on satisfaction with the job have been recognized for many decades (e.g.,