Effects of Locus of Control and A-B Personality Type on Job Satisfaction within the Health Care Field
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 53 (2) , 399-405
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.2.399
Abstract
The importance of locus of control and A-B personality type and their effects on job satisfaction were investigated. Rotter's I-E Scale, Hackman and Oldham's Job Diagnostic Survey, and the Behavior Activity Profile A-B Personality Scale were administered to 95 registered nurses. Analysis indicated that internal subjects perceived their jobs to be more enriched than external subjects in the following areas: feedback from the job, general satisfaction, internal work motivation, and the motivating potential score. There was a striking lack of relationship between personality type and job satisfaction and between personality type and locus of control.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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