The role of the happiness philosophy and core self-evaluations in defining job satisfaction as seen by the self and the significant other

Abstract

Our paper analyses sources of job satisfaction. A cross-sectional study in two variants: an online questionnaire ( n =642) and its paper version ( n =635), were used to measure the impact of core self-evaluations, hedonism and eudaimonism on job satisfaction. To strengthen the dependent variable (job satisfaction) measurement, two sources for this data were used: the target person’s self-assessment and his or her significant other’s evaluation. The results show that the significant other’s assessment can be a valuable source of information on the target person’s job satisfaction. On top of that, hierarchical regression has shown that both happiness philosophies: eudaimonism and hedonism have predictive power over the assessment of job satisfaction based on core self-evaluations.