Older Workers' Age as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Career Adaptability and Job Satisfaction
Older Workers' Age as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Career Adaptability and Job Satisfaction
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DOI：
10.1093/workar/wau009
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发表时间：
2015-04
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H. Zacher;Barbara Griffin
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作者：
H. Zacher;Barbara Griffin
职业适应性及其与工作成果关系的研究迄今主要集中在年轻员工群体上，而忽视了老年员工。我们调查了职业适应性和工作满意度之间的关系，在一个样本的577名老年工人从澳大利亚（M年龄= 59.6岁，SD = 2.4，范围54-66岁），谁参加了一个4波子研究的45岁以上的研究。基于社会情绪选择理论，我们研究了老年工人的实际年龄（作为退休接近度的代理）和传统退休年龄后继续工作的动机作为职业适应性和工作满意度之间关系的调节因子。我们假设，职业适应性和工作满意度之间的正相关关系是较强的相对年轻的工人和工人有较高的动机继续工作相比，相对年长的工人和工人的动机较低，继续工作。研究结果显示，年长员工的年龄，而不是他们的动机继续工作，调节职业适应性和工作满意度之间的关系与预期的模式一致。最后讨论了对未来年龄和职业适应性研究的启示，以及如何保持和提高老年工人的职业适应性和工作满意度的想法。
Abstr A ct Research on career adaptability and its relationships with work outcomes has so far primarily focused on the cohort of younger workers and largely neglected older workers. We investigated the relationship between career adaptability and job satisfaction in a sample of 577 older workers from Australia (M age = 59.6 years, SD = 2.4, range 54–66 years), who participated in a 4-wave substudy of the 45 and Up Study. Based on socioemotional selectivity theory, we examined older workers’ chronological age (as a proxy for retirement proximity) and motivation to continue working after traditional retirement age as moderators of the relationship between career adaptability and job satisfaction. We hypothesized that the positive relationship between career adaptability and job satisfaction is stronger among relatively younger workers and workers with a high motivation to continue working compared to relatively older workers and workers with a low motivation to continue working. Results showed that older workers’ age, but not their motivation to continue working, moderated the relationship between career adaptability and job satisfaction consistent with the expected pattern. Implications for future research on age and career adaptability as well as ideas on how to maintain and improve older workers’ career adaptability and job satisfaction are discussed.