30). Their conclusion was
followed by a call for research on relationships of job attitudes to even broader behavioral criteria: “Issues of construct generality and correspondence have fundamental effects on the nature and magnitude of the relationships between attitudes and behaviors . . . but have rarely been considered in the satisfaction performance literature” (Judge et al.,2001: 392). Responding to this suggestion and taking their work a step further, we explicitly considered those issues in the present research. Using structural equation modeling of meta-analytic correlations between pairs of job attitudes and behavioral criteria (Viswesvaran & Ones, 1995), we tested the fit of models of the consequences of overall job attitude. As those models move from theorizing
more specific to more general behavioral criteria,we expected they would show better fit to existing
data. In addition to assessing model fit, we examined the connection between overall job attitude and behavioral criteria. Following the compatibility principle, we expected the attitude-behavior connection to grow progressively stronger as behavioral criteria were defined in broader, more inclusive ways