White A T, Spector P E
Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa 33620.
Psychol Aging. 1987 Sep;2(3):261-5. doi: 10.1037//0882-7974.2.3.261.
Most researchers have found a positive linear relation between age and job satisfaction. We attempted to account for this relationship by measuring variables that had been proposed to be causal factors. Subjects were 496 city and county managers working in Florida. Potential explanatory variables were (a) job congruence (the difference between what managers prefer and what they perceive they have in a job), (b) internal-external locus of control, and (c) related demographics-age, salary, organizational tenure, position tenure, and organizational level. Multiple regression analyses found that job congruence and work locus of control accounted for almost all of the variance in the age-satisfaction relationship. This study supports the job change hypothesis, which proposes tha older workers get more of what they want out of work.
大多数研究人员发现年龄与工作满意度之间存在正线性关系。我们试图通过测量被认为是因果因素的变量来解释这种关系。研究对象是在佛罗里达州工作的496名市县管理人员。潜在的解释变量包括：(a) 工作匹配度（管理者的偏好与他们认为自己在工作中所拥有的之间的差异），(b) 内控外控倾向，以及 (c) 相关人口统计学因素——年龄、薪资、组织任期、职位任期和组织层级。多元回归分析发现，工作匹配度和工作内控倾向几乎解释了年龄与满意度关系中的所有差异。本研究支持工作变动假说，该假说认为年长员工能从工作中得到更多他们想要的东西。
