In the context of the emerging ‘affective revolution’ in social and organizational psychology (EI) is proposed as an important predictor of key organizational outcomes including job satisfaction. There is accumulating evidence that EI abilities and traits influence job satisfaction but to our knowledge, there is no study testing the extent to which affective components of the work experience may mediate such a connection. Theories of emotion in organizations suggest that affective states at work are key vehicles of personality and organizational influences on job satisfaction and performance. Moreover, it has been pointed out that there is little research examining dispositional factors of job satisfaction . Emotional intelligence thus can constitute a link between trait level affectivity, work affect and job satisfaction and the present study tested such a model using a structural equations modeling approach