Financial Support for Family Members and Importance of Performance Quality Interact as a Source of Motivation for Multip
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Financial Support for Family Members and Importance of Performance Quality Interact as a Source of Motivation for Multiple Jobholding Steven Mellor 1
& Ragan Decker
1
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract
Very few studies on multiple jobholding have examined predictors. Most studies have focused on outcomes. The current study examined an interactive predictor of multiple jobholding. Data were extracted from a data set used in a path-analytic study (Mellor and Decker 2020). An interactive perspective was drawn from a motivation framework on extrinsic and intrinsic reasons to hold more than one job, in which a conditional relationship was hypothesized between number of family members supported financially and number of employers. The data confirmed that number of family members supported interacts with importance placed on performance quality by employees as a predictor of multiple jobholding. Implications for work motivation in reference to multiple jobholding research are discussed. Keywords Multiple jobholders . Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation . Qualitative job performance A review of quantitative studies on multiple jobholders with families for a path-analytic study (Mellor and Decker 2020) revealed the preponderance of psychological studies that focus on outcomes rather than predictors of multiple jobholding, most of which examined relationships between holding a second job and psychological well-being and psychophysiological variables (e.g., occupational stress, chronic fatigue; Marucci-Wellman et al. 2014; Marucci-Wellman et al. 2016; Sappa et al. 2015) as well as job performance and performance-related variables (e.g., quantitative and qualitative performance, work-family conflict; Boyd et al. 2016; Fitchett et al. 2016; Webster et al. 2018).
* Steven Mellor [email protected] Ragan Decker [email protected]
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Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1020, U.S.A.
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal
As distinct from an outcome focus, the current study focuses on predictors of multiple jobholding by employees with families. We ask whether such predictors might be extracted from the data set used in the path-analytic study. In doing so, we consider two plausible predictors. To underline their relevance, we map constructs from a theory-based interactive perspective on extrinsic and intrinsic work motivation. Within this perspective, the predictors are hypothesized as interactive in relation to multiple jobholding. Setting forth our model, we then detail our extraction of variables along with scaling information on measures. To analytically isolate the interaction, we further detail our use of hierarchical regression. Finally, in our discussion of results, we emphasize implications for future research and practice involving motivation to hold more than one job.
Review and Data Set As seen in the review of studies (Mellor and Decker 2020), the very few studies that examine predictors of mult
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