Job satisfaction related to tested congruence and differentiation

Wiggins, James D.; Lederer, Doris A; Salkowe, Andrea; Rys, Gail S.

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“…Research addressing the role of consistency and differentiation in relation to job satisfaction is dated and limited. Almost 35 years ago, Wiggens, Lederer, Salkowe, and Rys () found that differentiation was a significant predictor of job satisfaction among teachers. In addition, significant positive correlations were found between nurses' job satisfaction and measures of differentiation and consistency (Hener & Meir, ).…”

Section: Holland's Person–environment Fitmentioning

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Examining Person–Environment Fit and Academic Major Satisfaction

Milsom

Coughlin

2017

J of College Counseling

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Decisions regarding college majors have the potential to affect a person's overall academic performance and long‐term career success. With Holland's () trait‐and‐factor theory serving as a foundation, the authors examined relationships between person–environment fit, college major satisfaction, and grade point average of undergraduate students (N = 99). Results revealed that student–major congruence and academic major satisfaction were both significant predictors of grade point average.

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Section: Holland's Person–environment Fitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Person–Environment Fit and Academic Major Satisfaction

Milsom

Coughlin

2017

J of College Counseling

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“…While congruence has been subject to numerous studies, differentiation has rarely been investigated, and the few studies that had dealt with it produced equivocal results (Franz & Walsh, 1972;Gottfredson & Holland, 1990;Spokane, 1985;Wiggins, Lederer, Salkowe, & Rys, 1983). Several formulae for measuring differentiation were suggested by Franz and Walsh (1972), Iachan (1984), and Spokane and Walsh (1978) and were found to correlate .51 to .94 (20% above .70) with Holland's (1985) method (Alvi, Kahn, & Kirkwood, 1990, on Canadian and Pakistani samples).…”

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Congruence and Differentiation as Predictors of Workers' Occupational Stability and Job Performance

Meir

Esformes

Friedland

1994

Journal of Career Assessment

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This study examined the relation between vocational interests and job congruence and (a) stability at work and (b) supervisors' evaluations. Congruence scores were based on a comparison between interest scores, as measured before employment, and occupational field after 1 year. Significant correlations (.19 to .31, n = 774) were found between congruence and job stability (persistence) and between congruence and performance (.09 to .27, for 90 males employed in the Business or Technology occupational fields), but not among 51 employed in the Organization field. Differentiation was found to make a negligible contribution in predicting stability and performance evaluations. The findings are discussed in light of the size of the correlation coefficients, the diversity of the Organization field, the Courses Inventory as a means for measuring vocational interests, and the method of measuring congruence differentiation.Holland's (1973, 1985) congruence hypothesis claims that &dquo;vocational satisfaction, stability, and achievement depend on the congruence between one's personality and the environment in which one works&dquo; (1985, p. 10). In order to measure this congruence, both personalities and environments are classified into six main types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Spokane (1985) and Edwards (1991) reviewed dozens of congruence studies aimed at examining Holland's congruence hypothesis. A meta-analysis performed by Assouline and Meir (1987) found that the mean correlations between congruence and satisfaction, stability and achievement were .21 (53 correlations, n = 9041), .15 (17 correlations, n = 11,855) and .06 (7 correlations, n = 1331), respectively.Assouline and Meir noted that in the various studies, stability and achievement were measured, almost exclusively, in the education system, comparing students' intentions or plans for future studies to their actual major field of study or college grades (e.g.

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“…Among the seven studies which have examined the extent to which differentiation or consistency are positively correlated with job satisfaction, three are somewhat supportive of the hypothesis that they do enhance the prediction of job satisfaction (Hener & Meir, 1981;Wiggins, 1984;Wiggins, Lederer, Salkowe, & Rys, 1983), and four are only weakly supportive or clearly nonsupportive (Frantz & Walsh, 1972;Peiser & Meir, 1978;Villwock, Schnitzen, & Carbonari, 1976). In fact, Gottfredson and Holland found that among bank tellers, differentiation was significantly negatively correlated with job satisfaction.…”

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Moderators of the Prediction of Job Satisfaction from Congruence: A Test of Holland's Theory

Carson

Mowsesian

1993

Journal of Career Assessment

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An outgrowth of the search for individual differences serving to enhance the predictability of behavior has led to speculations on the nature of personality characteristics which might moderate the extent to which work outcomes depend on degree of person- environment fit or congruence. This study investigated the extent to which three constructs proposed by Holland (1985; differentiation, consistency, and vocational identity) indeed moderate the strength of the congruence-satisfaction relationship. A sample of 139 employed adults who had completed Strong Interest Inventories between 1 and 6 years earlier completed measures of job satisfaction and vocational identity. The results indicated that none of Holland's proposed constructs moderated the strength of the congruence-satisfaction relationship, although congruence did emerge as a stronger predictor of job satisfaction for older males than for younger males. Implications for vocational assessment and career counseling are discussed.

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Job satisfaction related to tested congruence and differentiation

Cited by 46 publications

References 12 publications

Examining Person–Environment Fit and Academic Major Satisfaction

Examining Person–Environment Fit and Academic Major Satisfaction

Congruence and Differentiation as Predictors of Workers' Occupational Stability and Job Performance

Moderators of the Prediction of Job Satisfaction from Congruence: A Test of Holland's Theory

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