Self-esteem as a moderator of the relationship between scientific interests and the job satisfaction of physicists and engineers

A study with 121 engineers and 93 physicists tested the prediction that interests in science, as measured with the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for men, would be positively related to intrinsic satisfaction for high-self-esteem physicists and engineers but would be unrelated for low-self-esteem...

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Published in:Journal of applied psychology 1978-06, Vol.63 (3), p.289-294
Main Authors: Dipboye, Robert L, Zultowski, Walter H, Dewhirst, H. Dudley, Arvey, Richard D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Comparative studies
Correlation analysis
Engineering
Engineers
Human
Job Satisfaction
Occupational Interests
Physicists
Psychological aspects
Self esteem
Self image
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Summary:A study with 121 engineers and 93 physicists tested the prediction that interests in science, as measured with the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for men, would be positively related to intrinsic satisfaction for high-self-esteem physicists and engineers but would be unrelated for low-self-esteem physicists and engineers. The predictions were confirmed for the sample of physicists to the extent that high-self-esteem Ss showed a significant correlation between interests and intrinsic satisfaction, but low-self-esteem Ss showed a nonsignificant correlation. Because the difference in correlations was nonsignificant, it could not be concluded that self-esteem was a moderator in the case of the physicists. Self-esteem did moderate the relationship between interests in science and both extrinsic and intrinsic satisfaction for engineers, but the correlations were in a direction opposite to those predicted. (15 ref)
ISSN:0021-9010
1939-1854
DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.63.3.289