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Job Satisfaction Across the Workweek

An Affect-Laden Approach

Published Online:December 19, 2023https://doi.org/10.1026/0932-4089/a000426

Abstract

Abstract: The present study tested different perspectives on the time course of job satisfaction over the workweek: the “rested and recharged” perspective, the “Monday blues” perspective, and the “Thank God it’s Friday” perspective. A sample of 330 employees reported on an affect scale of job satisfaction during the workweek and on explicit and implicit affect at the start of the study. The results from discontinuous growth model analyses found evidence for a positive peak at the end of the week, from Thursday to Friday. Explicit negative affect at the beginning of the week was associated with lower affective job satisfaction at the beginning of the week, but with a higher rate of growth in affective job satisfaction over the course of the week. The results provide new insights into the time course of job satisfaction during the workweek and indicate a distinction between affective and cognitive components of job satisfaction.


Arbeitszufriedenheit während der Arbeitswoche. Ein affektgeladener Ansatz

Zusammenfassung: In der vorliegenden Studie wurden verschiedene Perspektiven auf den zeitlichen Verlauf der Arbeitszufriedenheit während der Arbeitswoche getestet: die „ausgeruht und aufgeladen“-Perspektive, die „Montagsblues“-Perspektive und die „Gott sei Dank ist Freitag“-Perspektive. Eine Stichprobe von 330 Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern: innen berichtete über eine Affektskala der Arbeitszufriedenheit während der Arbeitswoche sowie über explizite und implizite Affekte zu Beginn der Studie. Die Ergebnisse der Analysen des diskontinuierlichen Wachstumsmodells belegen eine positive Spitze am Ende der Woche, von Donnerstag bis Freitag. Ein explizit negativer Affekt zu Beginn der Woche war mit einer geringeren affektiven Arbeitszufriedenheit zu Beginn der Woche verbunden, aber mit einer höheren Wachstumsrate der affektiven Arbeitszufriedenheit im Laufe der Woche. Die Ergebnisse liefern neue Erkenntnisse über den zeitlichen Verlauf der Arbeitszufriedenheit während der Arbeitswoche und weisen auf eine Unterscheidung zwischen affektiven und kognitiven Komponenten der Arbeitszufriedenheit hin.

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