TY - JOUR
T1 - Educated and happy
T2 - a four‐year study explaining the links between education, job fit, and life satisfaction
AU - Ilies, Remus
AU - Yao, Jingxian
AU - Curseu, Petru L.
AU - Liang, Alyssa X.
N1 - Funding Information:
* Address for correspondence: Remus Ilies, National University of Singapore, 15 Kent Ridge Drive, Mochtar Riady Building, Singapore, 119245. Email: [email protected] In this paper we make use of data of the LISS (Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences) panel. The LISS panel data were collected by CentERdata (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) through its MESS project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 International Association of Applied Psychology.
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Drawing on a bottom-up theoretical perspective on life satisfaction, we developed and tested a model that specifies distinct paths from education to life satisfaction through three domain satisfactions (i.e., job, financial, and health satisfactions). Furthermore, we proposed explanatory mechanisms for each of these three paths (i.e., job fit, financial literacy, and proactive healthy behaviours). To test our hypotheses, we used a large probability sample comprising 3,011–9,669 individuals, from the Netherlands, who provided survey responses over four consecutive years. The results supported the hypothesised mediating mechanisms explaining the indirect relationship between education and job, financial, and health satisfactions. Findings also showed that each of these domain satisfactions independently predicts general life satisfaction. Overall, the study shows the importance of education for life satisfaction and highlights the importance of work (i.e., job fit and job satisfaction) for individuals' general subjective well-being.
AB - Drawing on a bottom-up theoretical perspective on life satisfaction, we developed and tested a model that specifies distinct paths from education to life satisfaction through three domain satisfactions (i.e., job, financial, and health satisfactions). Furthermore, we proposed explanatory mechanisms for each of these three paths (i.e., job fit, financial literacy, and proactive healthy behaviours). To test our hypotheses, we used a large probability sample comprising 3,011–9,669 individuals, from the Netherlands, who provided survey responses over four consecutive years. The results supported the hypothesised mediating mechanisms explaining the indirect relationship between education and job, financial, and health satisfactions. Findings also showed that each of these domain satisfactions independently predicts general life satisfaction. Overall, the study shows the importance of education for life satisfaction and highlights the importance of work (i.e., job fit and job satisfaction) for individuals' general subjective well-being.
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U2 - 10.1111/apps.12158
DO - 10.1111/apps.12158
M3 - Article
SN - 0269-994X
VL - 68
SP - 150
EP - 176
JO - Applied Psychology
JF - Applied Psychology
IS - 1
ER -
