Kan self-efficacy, socialt stöd och stress förutsäga arbetstillfredsställelse? - En korrelationsstudie.

Sammanfattning: Job satisfaction has long been a popular topic in previous research and it has been shown that job satisfaction correlates with many different constructs such as self- efficacy, social support and stress. Therefore, the study aimed at examine how much employees’ self-efficacy, experience of social support and stress together predicted job satisfaction. The aim was also to examine whether self-efficacy, social support and stress had individual relationships with job satisfaction. The study was constructed after a cross sectional survey design and the data was collected through a digital survey. The survey was answered by 77 employees either of contacted companies, or who answered the survey via a link on Facebook. The majority of the results did not show any significant correlations between the dependent variables and the independent variable. Exception for this was the correlation between social support from supervisor and job satisfaction. Thus, the study’s result did not confirm the hypothesis with one exception. The exception was the second hypothesis which was partially confirmed since social support from supervisor correlated with job satisfaction. Possible reasons to the results’ inconsistency with the hypothesis and previous research were discussed. One of the conclusions that were made were that the study with its limitations and within the context in which it took place, cannot tell anything about a prediction of job satisfaction. All data were not normally distributed and the majority of the independent variables showed no correlation to job satisfaction and therefore a regression analysis could not be accomplished.