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In a remarkable article, published in 1989 (see Arvey et al. 1991), Richard Arvey and his colleagues produced results that appeared to show that job satisfaction is inherited! At face value this is a very peculiar result indeed because, as we saw in Chap. 3, job satisfaction is supposed to be an appraisal of how we feel about our job.
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Johnson, S., Robertson, I., Cooper, C.L. (2018). The Whole Person and Psychological Well-Being. In: WELL-BEING. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62548-5_6
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