Job Satisfaction Life Satisfaction
ISSN 2086-5953 low skill job. In labor market, low skill jobs could
easily fill positions requiring little in the way of education, experience, or training. Besides the lack
of skills among them, in reality, migrant workers still considered as a commodity or an economic
object because with little formal education or work experience.
Robert et.al 1985 indicated a need for research examining the functional relationship
between job
satisfaction and
general life
satisfaction. Most studies have suggested that job satisfaction influence life satisfaction Ramazan
et.al , 2008; Near, 2004; Rain, Lane and Steiner,
1991; Heller, Judge and Watson, 2002. Many studies have reported significant,
positive relationships between job satisfaction and life satisfaction Rain, Lane and Steiner, 1991.
Research has established the relationship between job and life satisfaction as being significant and
positive Pearson product moments generally ranging from 0.31 to 0.44 Rode, 2004.
Researchers have argued that job satisfaction and life satisfaction should be related because of time
devoted to the work role and because work has been identified as a central life interest Dubin, 1956
thereby a
ffecting overall feelings about one‘s life. Attempting
to explain
the dynamics
underlying the relationship between these variables, the theoretical foundations derived from study of
Diener 1984 and essentially focuses on life experiences ‗bottom-up‘ argument that views life
satisfaction as the result of satisfaction with life domains such as work, family, leisure and on
dispositions ‗top-down‘ that people enjoy life experiences in a psychological sense rather than
objectively because they are happy people. Furthermore, Rode 2004 assumes that the
significant relationship between life and job satisfaction is the result of spurious correlation.
Finally, the suggestion by Brief et.al 1993 that an interaction explanation will prevail experience and
personality deserves serious consideration.
Judge, Boudreau and Bretz 1994 reported that there is significant in the job satisfaction-life
satisfaction relationship particularly. Their study included directional measures of work-family
conflict as well as job and life satisfaction, stress, etc. with result the effect of job satisfaction on life
satisfaction was significantly stronger than the effect of life satisfaction on job satisfaction. There
is some empirical evidence to support this relationship. Beutell 2006, for instance, found that
overall measure of work-family synergy was significantly related to life satisfaction.
Furthermore, the motivation of this study is to know relationship between some variables
among female Indonesian migrant workers. The variables are education background, working
period, job satisfaction and life satisfaction.
2 FRAMEWORK, CONSTRUCT,
AND HYPOTHESES
The conceptual
model and
construct measurements of research constructs such as
demographic questioner, job satisfaction questioner and life satisfaction questioner are introduced in
section.
Figure 1. The research model of this study.
Most constructsmeasures were multiple items, which required the respondent to rate items
on a scale. The social demographic variables such as age, hometown, marriage status, educational
background level, employment category, working period and work location were ascertained directly
from the questionnaire. The construct measurement of the research constructs are decrypted in the
following.