General job satisfaction from a developmental perspective: exploring choice--job matches at two career stages.

Career Development Quarterly | December 1, 2003| | Copyright

The authors explored predictions of general job satisfaction at early and middle adulthood and uncovered several findings about developmental processes associated with job satisfaction. Tests of life-span career theory propositions revealed that neither choice--job congruence nor gender added significantly to predictions of job satisfaction at 2 career stages. Earlier occupational choice and current job added to predictions of midcareer (modal age 43 years) job satisfaction, especially for men. The predictability of job satisfaction is apparently influenced by the career stage ...

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