Affect and Job Satisfaction: A Study of Their Relationship at Work and at Home.

TLDR

The study examined how mood and job satisfaction relate within and across individuals, and how work moods spill over to home moods. They used experience‑sampling to gather multisource data from 74 employees. Job satisfaction increased positive mood after work, and its spillover to home moods was stronger for individuals high in trait‑positive or trait‑negative affectivity; the influence of work mood on job satisfaction weakened over time, and positive (negative) work moods predicted positive (negative) home moods.

Abstract

The authors investigated 2 broad issues: (a) across- and within-individual relationships between mood and job satisfaction and (b) spillover in moods experienced at work and at home. Using an experience-sampling methodology, they collected multisource data from a sample of 74 working individuals. Multilevel results revealed that job satisfaction affected positive mood after work and that the spillover of job satisfaction onto positive and negative mood was stronger for employees high in trait-positive and trait-negative affectivity, respectively. Results also revealed that the effect of mood at work on job satisfaction weakened as the time interval between the measurements increased. Finally, positive (negative) moods at work affected positive (negative) moods experienced later at home.