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ERIC Number: EJ949602
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Feb
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0001-8791
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Moving beyond the Pleasure Principle: Within and Between-Occasion Effects of Employee Eudaimonia within a School Organizational Climate Context
Burns, Richard Andrew; Machin, Michael Anthony
Journal of Vocational Behavior, v80 n1 p118-128 Feb 2012
Eudaimonic notions of well-being have increasingly figured in the well-being literature. The impact of such constructs in the organizational psychology literature has been more limited. Within an Organizational Health Research Framework (OHRF), we present findings that demonstrate the importance of eudaimonic, or psychological well-being (PWB), constructs which have been purported to be more temporally stable than affective dimensions of subjective well-being (SWB). Several hypotheses were tested on three school teacher samples from around the globe. Of particular emphasis, both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses indicated that the predictive model demonstrated that individual PWB is the strongest predictor of employees' positive affect while positive organizational climate was the strongest predictor of school morale and distress. In conclusion, we found support for the role of eudaimonic constructs within the OHRF, identifying independent effects for individual and organizational characteristics on employee well-being, and with differential effects on positive and negative domains of SWB. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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