• DOI:10.1037//1076-8998.5.1.84
• Corpus ID: 19053832

Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance.

@article{Wright2000PsychologicalWA,
  title={Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance.},
  author={Thomas A. Wright and Russell Cropanzano},
  journal={Journal of occupational health psychology},
  year={2000},
  volume={5 1},
  pages={
          84-94
        }
}

• T. A. Wright, R. Cropanzano
• Published 2000
• Psychology, Business
• Journal of occupational health psychology

The happy-productive worker hypothesis has most often been examined in organizational research by correlating job satisfaction to performance. Recent research has expanded this to include measures of psychological well-being. However, to date, no field research has provided a comparative test of the relative contribution of job satisfaction and psychological well-being as predictors of employee performance. The authors report 2 field studies that, taken together, provide an opportunity to simultaneously examine the relative contribution of psychological well-being and job satisfaction to job performance. In Study 1, psychological well-being, but not job satisfaction, was predictive of job performance for 47 human services workers. These findings were replicated in Study 2 for 37 juvenile probation officers. These findings are discussed in terms of research on the happy-productive worker hypothesis.