A comparison of general and work-specific measures of core self-evaluations

作者：Bowling, Nathan A^*; Wang, Qiang; Tang, Han Ying; Kennedy, Kellie D

来源：Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010, 76(3): 559-566.

DOI：10.1016/j.jvb.2010.01.008

• Core self-evaluations
• Job attitudes
• Employee well-being
• Extra-role behaviors

During the past decade, considerable research attention has been given to core self-evaluations (CSEs). Although this research has found that CSE is related to several important work-related outcomes (e.g., job satisfaction, job performance), we believe that researchers' reliance on general rather than work-specific CSE has resulted in underestimates of the importance of CSE. Based on the literature on frame-of-reference effects in personality assessment, we predict that work-related CSE will yield stronger relationships with work-related criteria than general CSE will and that work-specific CSE will be related to work-specific criteria after general CSE has been controlled. Using two independent samples, we found that when compared with general CSE, work-specific CSE generally failed to yield significantly stronger zero-order relationships with work-related criteria. However, we found several instances in which work-specific CSE predicted incremental variance in work-related criteria after the effects of general CSE were controlled.

• 出版日期2010-6
• 单位华中师范大学