HCBE Faculty Articles

The Role of Job Control as a Moderator of Emotional Dissonance and Emotional Intelligence–Outcome Relationships

ORCID

Rebecca Abraham 0000-0002-3144-7759

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

The Journal of Psychology (Interdisciplinary and Applied)

ISSN

1940-1019

Publication Date

2000

Abstract/Excerpt

Job control may be defined as the latitude to make decisions and the freedom to select the most appropriate skills to complete the task. Emotional dissonance may be defined as the conflict between expressed and experienced emotions. In this study, job control and self-efficacy were theorized to jointly affect emotional dissonance. Individuals with high self-efficacy were found to be more satisfied under conditions of little job control, whereas those with low self-efficacy favored high job control. The impact of job control on emotional intelligence was also studied. Emotional intelligence may be defined as the set of skills that contribute to accurate self-appraisal of emotion as well as the detection of emotional cues in others and the use of feelings to motivate and achieve in one's life. Emotional intelligence and job control explained significant amounts of the variance in both job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980009600860

Volume

134

Issue

2

First Page

169

Last Page

184

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