Keywords
irritation
job satisfaction
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Abstract
The present article tries to gather empirical evidence for the moderating role of occupational self-efficacy beliefs between job satisfaction and specific responses to stress such as irritation at work. A multi-occupational sample of 386 subjects participated in this study, 47.1% women and 52.9% men. The mean age was 38 years old (s.d. 12.03), all of them in an active situation when filling in the following questionnaires: The Irritation Scale, the Job Descriptive Index, and the Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale. Correlation analyses, analyses of variance and regression analyses were carried through. Results obtained through correlation analyses confirmed a positive relation between occupational self-efficacy and job satisfaction (dimensions work itself, supervision, and promotion, p < 0.01), and a negative relation between emotional irritation and occupational self-efficacy (p < 0.01). Besides, analyses of variance and regression analyses confirmed that among the subjects with lower levels of job satisfaction, those with higher self-efficacy showed lower levels of stress, thus, confirming the moderating role of occupational self-efficacy on work stress experience. Therefore, an important conclusion or implication of the results is the confirmation of the occupational self-efficacy as a moderator between the satisfaction and the experience of irritation at work.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.