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The relationship between employee job change and job satisfaction: the honeymoon-hangover effect.

Boswell WR, Boudreau JW, Tichy J

Department of Management, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, US. wboswell@tamu.edu.

Recent research suggests that the turnover process is not fully captured by the traditional sequential model relating job dissatisfaction to subsequent turnover. The present study contributes to this research by modeling within-individual job satisfaction as a function of job change patterns to determine if individual work attitudes change systematically with the temporal turnover process. Specifically, the authors hypothesized that low satisfaction would precede a voluntary job change, with an increase in job satisfaction immediately following a job change (the honeymoon effect), followed by a decline in job satisfaction (the hangover effect). Though this pattern is suggested in the literature, no prior research has integrated and tested this complete temporal model within individuals. Findings based on a sample of managers supported the proposed honeymoon-hangover effect. ((c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Published 15 September 2005 in J Appl Psychol, 90(5): 882-92.
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