Abstract
Review of theory and research on the relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction suggests the prediction that causal effects flow in only one direction: that is, that job satisfaction causes life satisfaction but that life satisfaction does not cause job satisfaction. Cross-lag correlation analysis and path analysis of longitudinal survey data so not support this prediction. Indeed, job satisfaction does not predict life satisfaction when the effects of other variables are controlled, not does life satisfaction predict job satisfaction. In light of this finding, various models of work and non-work are discussed.
The data utilized in this article were made available by the ISR Social Science Archive and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. The data for the Quality of Employment Survey (1977) were originally collected by Robert Quinn and Graham Staines, sponsored by the Employee Standards Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. The data for the Quality of Emploment Study (1972–1973) were originally collected by Robert P. Quinn, Thomas W. Magione, and Stanley R. Seashore of the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan. The original collectors of the data, the Archive and the Consortium bear no responsibility for the analysis or interpretation presented here.
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