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Title: Social Comparisons and Satisfaction With Work
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Hardie, Jessica H. |
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Social Comparisons and Satisfaction With Work Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Expectations/Intentions; Job Satisfaction; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Attainment; Parental Influences; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Social psychological theories suggest that individuals' wellbeing depends, in part, on how they compare themselves to others or previously established standards. The current study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (N=9,813) and employs random- and fixed-effects models to examine whether job satisfaction is a function of four social comparisons: 1) the gap between occupational aspirations in adolescence and attainment, 2) the gap between parents' occupational attainment and respondent's occupational attainment, 3) the gap between siblings' occupational attainment and respondent's occupational attainment, and 4) the gap between predicted occupational attainment and actual occupational attainment. Findings reveal job satisfaction is negatively associated with falling short of aspirations and falling short of predicted occupational attainment. Exceeding parents' attainment is associated with higher odds of job satisfaction. These findings make a unique contribution to theory and our understanding of wellbeing in relation to work. |
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Hardie, Jessica H. "Social Comparisons and Satisfaction With Work." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |