Over-education and job satisfaction: The role of job insecurity and career enhancing strategies |
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| Institution: | 1. Erasmus Mundus Master on Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology, IDOCAL, University of Valencia, Av. Blasco Ibañez, 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain;2. Research Institute of HR Psychology, Organizational Development and Quality of Working Life (IDOCAL), University of Valencia, Valencia Institute of Economic Research (IVIE), Av. Blasco Ibañez, 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain |
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| Abstract: | IntroductionOver-education is a current phenomenon, which hampers job satisfaction. Finding variables that moderates the deteriorating effect of over-education could be useful.ObjectivePresent study analyses the relationship between over-education and intrinsic, extrinsic and social facets of job satisfaction, and the moderation role of career enhancing strategies and job insecurity.MethodSample was composed of 1362 participants 16–30 years-old that entered the job market in the previous five years, from the 2011 cohort of the Spanish Observatory for Labor Entry of Youth. Analyses were made using Process Macro.ResultsResults show that all direct relationships are significant, and that career enhancing strategies moderated the relationship between over-education and social and extrinsic job satisfaction.ConclusionFindings provides insights regarding strategies to buffer the detrimental effects that over-education had for young employees’ job satisfaction. |
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| Keywords: | Over-education Job satisfaction Job insecurity Career enhancing strategies |
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