Job satisfaction and job survival

Abstract

Using a job satisfaction questionnaire constructed on previous samples, mail questionnaires were sent to 2,710 insurance agents, of whom 990 made a return. From these, matched samples of 99 survivors and 99 terminated agents were compared. The results "indicated that certain attitudes held by agents are significantly related to the criterion of survival-termination. It was also found that the proportion of agents expressing dissatisfaction with a particular item was not related to whether or not that item was predictive of the criterion. The data show that the validation of signed job satisfaction questionnaires leads to a much different kind of interpretation of the responses than is obtained from anonymous questionnaires." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)