Satisfaction with One’s Paid Employment

Abstract

In this chapter MDT is used to explain satisfaction with one’s paid employment, i.e., job satisfaction. In the next section (2.2), I review mean satisfaction scores for the world balanced sample, relatively developed and less developed countries, 39 countries, males and females. In Sections 2.3 and 2.4 job satisfaction is explained by MDT, respectively, for the world balanced sample taken as a whole, and for males and females taken separately. Section 2.5 summarizes results of using MDT to explain job satisfaction in 25 countries, including relatively developed and less developed countries, males and females. The domain of paid employment was one of three domains (along with living partner and religion) where substantial numbers of students had no response. Indeed, many students found the idea of being gainfully employed while attending university simply baffling. Many frequently wrote something like “I am a student” on their questionnaires. In the final section (2.6), MDT’s prediction success ratios are reviewed for all the explanations offered in Section 2.5.