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Role of Life Events Stress and Locus of Control (External) in Job Satisfaction:An Empirical Evidence


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1 Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Psychology, D. A. V. P. G. College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
     

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In modern competitive organizations, job satisfaction is an important psychological attribute that may play crucial role in organizational effectiveness and employees' well-being. Locus of control as a personality variable and stressful life events are causally implicated in a variety of unenviable effects on our performance and health. The present study was conducted on 210 managerial personnel in private sector organizations in India. The results of correlation coefficients indicate that person positive was found to be significantly positively correlated with satisfaction (job & total). Job positive was found to be significantly positively correlated with satisfaction (management & total) and locus of control (external) was found to be significantly negatively correlated with satisfaction (management & total). Results of stepwise multiple regression analysis indicate that person positive (dimension of positive life events stress) emerges as predictor for satisfaction (job & total) and job positive (dimension of positive life events stress) emerge as predictor for satisfaction (management) while locus of control (external) emerge as predictor for satisfaction (management & total) The finding of this study will help in ameliorating the job satisfaction which helps to revamp the employees' performance and aggrandize the organizational productivity.

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Life Events Stress, Locus of Control, and Job Satisfaction.
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Authors

A. P. Singh
Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Anoop Kumar Singh
Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Vinod Kumar Gupta
Department of Psychology, D. A. V. P. G. College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract


In modern competitive organizations, job satisfaction is an important psychological attribute that may play crucial role in organizational effectiveness and employees' well-being. Locus of control as a personality variable and stressful life events are causally implicated in a variety of unenviable effects on our performance and health. The present study was conducted on 210 managerial personnel in private sector organizations in India. The results of correlation coefficients indicate that person positive was found to be significantly positively correlated with satisfaction (job & total). Job positive was found to be significantly positively correlated with satisfaction (management & total) and locus of control (external) was found to be significantly negatively correlated with satisfaction (management & total). Results of stepwise multiple regression analysis indicate that person positive (dimension of positive life events stress) emerges as predictor for satisfaction (job & total) and job positive (dimension of positive life events stress) emerge as predictor for satisfaction (management) while locus of control (external) emerge as predictor for satisfaction (management & total) The finding of this study will help in ameliorating the job satisfaction which helps to revamp the employees' performance and aggrandize the organizational productivity.

Keywords


Life Events Stress, Locus of Control, and Job Satisfaction.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2018%2Fv9i1%2F173703