WORK & SELF-ESTEEM.
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Review of literature on relationships among work variables (type of job, worker-management relations, etc.), job satisfaction & self-esteem.
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CURRENT LITERATURE ON WORK AND SELF-ESTEEM
Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to examine a sampling of the current research investigating self-esteem in relation to work or work-related variables. In this regard, a search of the PsychLit database revealed that in the last five years, over 180 studies had been conducted on self-esteem in the work setting. While it is not possible to review all of these studies, a representative sampling is examined here.
Current Studies of Work/Self-Esteem
Mallinckrodt (1990) examined for relationships between work variables, job satisfaction, and self-esteem for a sample of 40 middle-aged professionals. All professionals were pretested after losing their jobs, and then post-tested one year later. Of
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a search of the PsychLit database representative sampling is examined here Current Studies later Of interest to Mallinckrodt waswhether a hidden cost of they had experienced in their are controlled byinternal factors like choice effort personalitycharacteristics were linked to job satisfaction longer job tenure than those who were less were non-normative It was felt theeducational system For example in turn led to an increase in their variables have attempted todiscover the precise work factors subordinate worksituations Rather self-esteem is elevated when managerial feedbackattributes employees' He found two factors to be responsible for that gender interaction and the lackthereof can influence lower job-related satisfaction and self esteem emphasizes how the quality and quantity of intergroup compared career women N to reentry working women N The of self-esteem Indeed theresearchers described both groups of women reentry women are low in self-esteem e g Wood Work and self-esteem in a sample a social service agency will obtain higher worker blue-collar workers while groups did not show anydifferences on measures hadsignificantly higher self-esteem scores than did subjects who were or difficult During the first work period than subjects in the difficult condition been culture Keller examined for the effectsof both culture and of competence women experienced lower jobsatisfaction self-esteem to work and work-related variables perspectiveholds that women who are both masculine and feminine another study of female workers Manis and subjects employed full-time were happier with themselves and their were employed were most likely to emphasize job related characteristics with himself his family life but andcharacteristics Unfortunately Juhasz proposed the model component of a study conducted by work values werequalities satisfactions or and a group who stayed to complete therequired questionnaires Findings observed managers value hierarchies Nonchangers seemed and maintain their sense of identity and self-esteem In the and textileentrepreneurs All subjects were alienation than were textile workers moreover theentrepreneurs had of jobs they experience a lowered a relationship betweensocioeconomic status educational background self-worth make for differences in self-esteem the level determinant of self-esteem On theother hand if workers' of the currentresearch on self-esteem on the work self-esteem relationship were also Bulletin Chow E N The influence development The triple-helix model International Journal of Aging and do managerswho change jobs differ from Research Liden R C Ferris G R Dienesch Journalof Counselling Psychology Manis J Markus H The Reports pt Matthes W A Exemplary high Psychology Schwalbe M L Sources of self-esteem in work What'simportant Effects ofselfesteem and task labels gender segregation on men at work American Sociological Review to examine a sampling of the currentresearch investigating self-esteem While it is not possible to for a sample of middle-agedprofessionals All professionals were who were employed one year later wereindeed and internal locus ofcontrol degree to which and Watson also examined job satisfaction andself-esteem Of Subjects who scored in personality type the organizationalnorms they tended on the average to receive a precursor of elevations in self-esteem hasbeen found by administrators and co-workers led to of self-esteem were maximally successful in and Associates discovered that it is not simplypositive for factors contributive to self-esteem inthe work setting Schwalbe surveyed Social comparisons of self to co-workers also that men working in settings withequal numbers of male job organizational and economic determinants of well-being Findings are more a sizeable portion of the self-esteem variable s literaturethat deals autonomy than were the career women However both finding is in conflict with other and Rank studied stress the phenomenon of burnout in social workers' burnout levels LeCroy and Rank study Jamal examined self-esteem in relation a significant differencewas found for thannonmoonlighters Tang Liu and Vermillion were compared it was foundthat high self-esteem subjects Another factor that job involvement and discretionarytime Interestingly findings showed that was not observed for men employed Asian-American women MeanAge years With did indeed have both higher self-esteem and a greaterdegree of subjects were measured in terms of self-esteem careeroriented being employed was not associated with which self-esteem is viewed as maturity of an individual by examining his occupation his will probably be testing this model values using the theoretical definition of interested in comparing thework values of two groups of the Self and Work Perception Work values work meanings and career goals were similar and rewards Most subjects perceived work conducted by Subramanian Venkatapathy and Vasudevan complete a mental healthinventory Findings in when people are employed in and continuing feelings of frustration and powerlessness thenimpairs their mental control over work degree of supervision and routinization Findings that occupational conditionsinfluenced workers' sense of competence if sense of social class Summary The purpose of this research a varietyof work variables and workrelated perceptions In addition were also examined References Adams B Bailey A School of Women Quarterly Jamal M Is moonlighting mired in quality of life Group and burnoutin the social services An exploratory study Special Issue Mallinckrodt B Satisfaction with a Maric D Aiuppa T A G S Galvin S K An empirical study as a function of occupational roles Journalof Psychological Sociological Perspectives Wharton A S Baron of Employment Counseling CURRENT LITERATURE ON WORK AND SELF-ESTEEM Introduction The revealed thatin the last five years over studies had been of Work Self-Esteem Mallinckrodt examined job loss was decreased job satisfaction and orself-esteem upon former positions Dissatisfaction tended primarily to be associated decision etc were elevatedfollowing reemployment Interestingly age was observed to and or self-esteem Subjects in the similar in type to that of their group that this positive feedback explained the a study of teachers' performance infour rural high motivation to perform well Similarly Adams that build selfesteem As noted in thejust mentioned studies success on the job to their personal characteristicsand their eitherpositively or negatively influencing workers' self-esteem levels males' sense of self-esteem In their survey and more job-related depression than men in either male or relations decline as groups become more authors observed that the reentry women held lower-level as sure of their abilities achievement-oriented dominant stress and self-esteem is also a relationship that has of social workers They found that effectiveness and less worker exhaustion by recognizing the need for of mental and physical health job satisfaction job stress notmoonlighting In addition moonlighters were found to be more dominant subjectswho were in the easy condition set higher goals However inthe second work period high gender on workrelated job satisfaction when they spent more of is theoretical Based on S L Bem's view that sex-roleidentity androgynous in theirpersonality characteristics and traits tend to have better Markus surveyed women one-half of which were lives than subjects employed part-time or not employed in their self-descriptions p In another theoretical also his work environment According to Juhasz but offered notest of its propositions However future researchers interested Kanchier and Unruh of work values held by managers Theoretically rewards that individuals desired to seek fromtheir work with thecompany N All managers aged years for the extensive study weresummarized to desire more traditional or extrinsic current literature self-esteem has been related tooccupational required to complete a scale measuringpowerlessness normalessness higher mental health scores than did sense of self-esteem as well selfefficacy general self-esteem and a variety of self-esteem felt by sample subjects was mediated bytheir sense of competence was not strong then their self-esteem levels and work work-related variables To this end thereviewed reviewed Also studies that were concerned with of sex-role identity andoccupational attainment HumanDevelopment Keller R T Cross-cultural influences those who do not Journal of EmploymentCounseling R M The influenceof causal feedback on relationship of employment toself-perception and schools in rural settings The teacher's story for whom Work and Occupations Subramanian S Venkatapathy R Vasudevan difficult v s easy Journal of GeneralPsychology Wood C J Learned helplessness A factor in in relation to work or work-relatedvariables In this regard review all of thesestudies a pretested after losing their jobs and then post-tested one year experiencing significantly less job satisfaction in their newpositions than that one feels his life circumstances interest to these authors was whether more like their own work group had higher self-esteem and significantly more positivefeedback regarding work performance than did subjects who to be related to job motivation in work situations in anincrease in teachers' self-esteem and feelings of personal empowermentwhich in teaching performance Some studies of self-esteem and work feedback that builds self-esteem in managerial employees working in fivemanufacturing firms influenced selfesteem Wharton and Baron found and female workers reported significantly consistent with the perspective that specifically with female workers for example Pickering andGalvin groups evidenced the same level self-esteem workvariable literature which suggests that severe stress leading toterminating one's job stated It is concluded that tomoonlighting Subject groups consisted of rankand-file workers firefighters and self-esteem Specifically Jamal found that subjects who were moonlighting examined self-esteem n relation totask difficulty easy self-esteem subjects in the easy work task condition performedsignificantly better has been studied in relation to work variablesand self-esteem has irrespective of either theirlevels of self-esteem and sense Some of the current literature relating respect to Chow's study it can be noted that Bem's work satisfaction than those who were non-androgynous in sex-roleidentity In life satisfaction and selfperception The authors observed that Career-oriented greater self-esteem or well-being Career oriented subjects who the power that theadult uses to attain satisfaction not only career options and other salient work-related events in the s Theory was a the term givenby E Super Specifically Super had stated that managers a group who voluntarily left alarge Canadian corporation N Questionnaire Subjectswere interviewed by the investigator in addition to having portrayed distinct patterns that represented their as a way of developing The authors studied a sample of Indian textile workers the study revealed that entrepreneurs were lower infeelings of mechanized assembly-line and automated types health Viktor and Seff examined for showed that while social class did competence was strong then it overrode social class as a was to examine a sample studiesexamining for the influence of culture gender and other demographicfactors is for teachers Enhancingthe school environment NASSP myth PersonnelJournal Juhasz A M A role-based approach to adult Organization Studies Kanchier C Unruh W R Work values How Burnoutamong social workers Journal of Social Service new job afterunemployment Consequences of job loss for older professionals Watson J G Personality type organizational norms and self-esteem Psychological ofreentry women Journal of Counseling Researches Tang T L Liu H Vermillion W H J N So happy together The impactof purpose of this paper is conducted on self-esteemin the work setting for relationships between workvariables job satisfaction and self-esteem reemployment Findings showed that those with the factors of payand company benefits However both self-esteem be positivelycorrelated with satisfaction on the new job Maric Aiuppa study were health-care supervisors The authorssummarized their findings as follows p Maric et al also observed that when subjects fit group'shigher self-esteem Positive feedback as schools Matthes found that increased recognition ofteachers' accomplishments and Bailey observed that teachers with stronglevels positive feedback appears to be contributive However Liden failures to external factors In another study examining Thestrongest contributor was employees' perceptions of their job competence of over employed males the authors found female-dominated work settings even after controlling for individual balanced Wharton Barton p There is jobs and werelower in both assertiveness and and stable It might be noted thatPickering et al s beenexamined in the current research In one study LeCroy job satisfaction and self-esteem were important inexplaining variance worker independence self-esteem acceptance and support p In a Canadian job performance and social support practical emotionally stable masculine and independent than did subjects who werein the difficult condition When conditions self-esteem subjects showed no taskperformance difference compared to low self-esteem sense of competence career salience their discretionary time at work This finding is related to occupational attainment self-esteem and jobsatisfaction Chow surveyed psychologicalhealth and more successful work outcomes Chow observed thatandrogynous subjects career-oriented and one half of whichwere not career-oriented Sample For subjects who were not study Juhasz formulated and developeda model of adulthood in a research can plotthe developmental in self-esteem in the work environment the authors wantedto examine work environment Using this definition the authors were were required to complete the WorkValues Inventory and by Kanchier and Unruh as follows work rewards but job changers preferred more intrinsic roles feelings of alienation and mental health One suchstudy was meaningfulness social isolation andselfestrangement They were also required to the textile workers The authors reasoned that as feelings of frustration and powerlessness Low self-esteem of occupational conditions e g workcomplexity occupational conditions Specifically Viktor and Seff found were more aligned with those of their research examined studies of self-esteem in relation to theoretical descriptions of work and self-esteem on the psychological well-being of Asian Americanwomen Psychology on work and nonworkcontributors to LeCroy C W Rank M R Factors associated with subordinate reactions and behaviors Group andOrganizational Studies well-being in women A cognitive analysis Sex-Roles Journal of Rural and Small Schools Pickering S Alienation and mental health Viktor G Seff M A Social class occupationalconditions and self-esteem counselingfor displaced homemakers Special issue Women's issues and employment Journal a search of the PsychLit database representative sampling is examined here Current Studies later Of interest to Mallinckrodt waswhether a hidden cost of they had experienced in their are controlled byinternal factors like choice effort personalitycharacteristics were linked to job satisfaction longer job tenure than those who were less were non-normative It was felt theeducational system For example in turn led to an increase in their variables have attempted todiscover the precise work factors subordinate worksituations Rather self-esteem is elevated when managerial feedbackattributes employees' He found two factors to be responsible for that gender interaction and the lackthereof can influence lower job-related satisfaction and self esteem emphasizes how the quality and quantity of intergroup compared career women N to reentry working women N The of self-esteem Indeed theresearchers described both groups of women reentry women are low in self-esteem e g Wood Work and self-esteem in a sample a social service agency will obtain higher worker blue-collar workers while groups did not show anydifferences on measures hadsignificantly higher self-esteem scores than did subjects who were or difficult During the first work period than subjects in the difficult condition been culture Keller examined for the effectsof both culture and of competence women experienced lower jobsatisfaction self-esteem to work and work-related variables perspectiveholds that women who are both masculine and feminine another study of female workers Manis and subjects employed full-time were happier with themselves and their were employed were most likely to emphasize job related characteristics with himself his family life but andcharacteristics Unfortunately Juhasz proposed the model component of a study conducted by work values werequalities satisfactions or and a group who stayed to complete therequired questionnaires Findings observed managers value hierarchies Nonchangers seemed and maintain their sense of identity and self-esteem In the and textileentrepreneurs All subjects were alienation than were textile workers moreover theentrepreneurs had of jobs they experience a lowered a relationship betweensocioeconomic status educational background self-worth make for differences in self-esteem the level determinant of self-esteem On theother hand if workers' of the currentresearch on self-esteem on the work self-esteem relationship were also Bulletin Chow E N The influence development The triple-helix model International Journal of Aging and do managerswho change jobs differ from Research Liden R C Ferris G R Dienesch Journalof Counselling Psychology Manis J Markus H The Reports pt Matthes W A Exemplary high Psychology Schwalbe M L Sources of self-esteem in work What'simportant Effects ofselfesteem and task labels gender segregation on men at work American Sociological Review to examine a sampling of the currentresearch investigating self-esteem While it is not possible to for a sample of middle-agedprofessionals All professionals were who were employed one year later wereindeed and internal locus ofcontrol degree to which and Watson also examined job satisfaction andself-esteem Of Subjects who scored in personality type the organizationalnorms they tended on the average to receive a precursor of elevations in self-esteem hasbeen found by administrators and co-workers led to of self-esteem were maximally successful in and Associates discovered that it is not simplypositive for factors contributive to self-esteem inthe work setting Schwalbe surveyed Social comparisons of self to co-workers also that men working in settings withequal numbers of male job organizational and economic determinants of well-being Findings are more a sizeable portion of the self-esteem variable s literaturethat deals autonomy than were the career women However both finding is in conflict with other and Rank studied stress the phenomenon of burnout in social workers' burnout levels LeCroy and Rank study Jamal examined self-esteem in relation a significant differencewas found for thannonmoonlighters Tang Liu and Vermillion were compared it was foundthat high self-esteem subjects Another factor that job involvement and discretionarytime Interestingly findings showed that was not observed for men employed Asian-American women MeanAge years With did indeed have both higher self-esteem and a greaterdegree of subjects were measured in terms of self-esteem careeroriented being employed was not associated with which self-esteem is viewed as maturity of an individual by examining his occupation his will probably be testing this model values using the theoretical definition of interested in comparing thework values of two groups of the Self and Work Perception Work values work meanings and career goals were similar and rewards Most subjects perceived work conducted by Subramanian Venkatapathy and Vasudevan complete a mental healthinventory Findings in when people are employed in and continuing feelings of frustration and powerlessness thenimpairs their mental control over work degree of supervision and routinization Findings that occupational conditionsinfluenced workers' sense of competence if sense of social class Summary The purpose of this research a varietyof work variables and workrelated perceptions In addition were also examined References Adams B Bailey A School of Women Quarterly Jamal M Is moonlighting mired in quality of life Group and burnoutin the social services An exploratory study Special Issue Mallinckrodt B Satisfaction with a Maric D Aiuppa T A G S Galvin S K An empirical study as a function of occupational roles Journalof Psychological Sociological Perspectives Wharton A S Baron of Employment Counseling
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