Does trait affect promote job attitude stability?

✍ Scribed by John Schaubroeck; Daniel C. Ganster; Barbara Kemmerer

• Book ID: 101288063
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 432 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-3796
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199603)17:2<191::aid-job777>3.0.co;2-x

✦ Synopsis

Trait affect has been studied as a factor which may help explain why job attitudes tend to be rather enduring over time. In this study, test-retest correlations of various job attitudes measured 7 years apart were relatively unaffected by controlling for five measures of affective disposition.