Work Satisfaction and Age: Some Evidence for the ‘Job Change’ Hypothesis
作者:
James D. Wright,
Richard F. Hamilton,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1978)
卷期:
Volume 56,
issue 4
页码: 1140-1158
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1978
DOI:10.1093/sf/56.4.1140
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Previous research on work satisfaction has consistently shown that older people are more satisfied with their jobs than younger people. The present paper addresses three possible explanations for this tendency: (1) the “now generation” of workers subscribes to a set of post-material values that contradict the demands of the industrial system and cause greater work discontent; (2) the standards of the old are systematically eroded by their years in the system, such that they learn to be satisfied with less; and (3) older workers simply have better jobs. A decisive choice among these hypotheses cannot be made without longitudinal data; nonetheless, the bulk of the evidence presented here (for economically active, salaried white males, drawn from the University of Michigan's 1972–73 Quality of Employment survey) clearly favors the last hypothesis.
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