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Pilot study - Coping strategy relationship to overall job satisfaction.
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How do Coping Strategies Correlate with Job Satisfaction
Scores?
Introduction
• Individuals spend about a third of their lives at work
– (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009)
Introduction
• Everyone encounters stressful situations on a daily basis . . .
Introduction
• The coping strategies we employ can vary based on our perception of the situation and our personality . . .
• (Carver & Connor-Smith, 2010)
Purpose of Study
• This study was designed to examine association between individual coping tendencies and overall job satisfaction.
COPE
• Individual coping strategies– (COPE; Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub, 1989)
• Multidimensional inventory of coping responses to stress.
• Subscales into two clusters.
– Adaptive coping strategies
– Questionable coping strategies
– Active coping
– Planning
– Suppression of competing activities
– Restraint coping
– Seeking social support (instrumental & emotional)
– Positive reinterpretation & growth
– Acceptance
Adaptive Cluster
–Denial
–Behavioral disengagement
–Mental disengagement
–Focus on & venting of emotions
Questionable Cluster
Job Satisfaction
• Job Satisfaction Scale – (JSS; Macdonald & Macintyre, 1997)
• Overall satisfaction with job situation
– Relationship with supervisor
– Type and level of work
– Compensation
Hypothesis #1
• Participants who scored higher on adaptive coping strategies will also score higher on job satisfaction scores.
Hypothesis #2
• Participants who score higher on more questionable coping strategies will tend to score lower on job satisfaction scores.
Participants
• Participants
– 25 undergraduate psychology students in an advanced course at Seattle University
• Gender
– 70% women - 30% men
• Age
– Mean age 22.1 (SD=1.8)
Measures
• Job Satisfaction Scores – (JSS; MacDonald & MacIntyre, 1997)
•Individual coping strategies–(COPE; Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub, 1989)
COPE
• Thirteen scales– Problem-focused– Emotion-focused– Disengagement Behaviors
• Two clusters subscales
– Adaptive coping strategies– Questionable strategies
• Internal consistency - (Cronbach's α = .45 - .92)– High test-retest reliability (r = .46 - .86) & (r2 = .42
- .89)– Demonstrates both convergent and divergent validity
– Measured on a 4-point scale• Range
– 1 = I usually don't do this at all to 4 = I usually do this a lot
• Higher scores indicating that the individual tends more toward that type of behavior
COPE
JSS
•Job Satisfaction Scale -(JSS; Macdonald & Macintyre, 1997)
- Cronbach’s alpha reliability for this scale (α = .77)-No gender difference-No occupational difference-Older employees more satisfied
JSS
• Scoring – sum of items indicating total job satisfaction
- Ten items -(1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)
Procedures
• A packet of five self-report paper and pencil surveys were distributed to students in two classes to complete in no particular order.
• Most were completed in class and a few were retained and turned in later.
ResultsHypothesis #1 – “adaptive” coping strategies
would be positively correlated with higher job satisfaction.– r(23) = .36, p<0.08 (not significant)– Effect size = 13% of job satisfaction can
be predicted by adaptive coping skills – Small relationship
• (Cohen, 1988)
• Results do not support hypothesis #1
Results
Hypothesis #2 – “questionable” coping strategies would be negatively correlated with higher job satisfaction.
– r(23) = -.003, p<0.99 (not significant due to sample size)
– Effect size = no effect
• Results do not support hypothesis #2
Discussion – Adaptive Coping
• Significance – small sample size; results approached significance
• Positive correlation
• Small effect size
• Age relevance
– Future study with more diverse group
• Results showed no significance or effect size
• “Questionable” coping tendencies do not increase job satisfaction, but neither do they decrease it
Discussion – Questionable Coping
• Participant demographic factors– Age– Years of Experience– Number of Jobs
• COPE subscales and JSS revealed relationships worth exploring further
– Positive Reinterpretation and Growth• Empirical and theoretically based• Leads to active and planning actions
Future Research