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1977 • 247 citations

Self-esteem in young men: A longitudinal analysis of the impact of educational and occupational attainment.

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Self-esteem and the effects of success and failure feedback on performance1

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Self-esteem variable in vocational choice.

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Self-esteem as a moderator of the relationship between job performance and job satisfaction.

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1975 • 45 citations

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1977 • 38 citations

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Effect of self-esteem upon performance following failure stress.

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Self-esteem, career salience, and the choice of an ideal occupation

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Correlates of self-concept

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Self-esteem, need for approval, and reactions to personal evaluations

1974 • 27 citations

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1976 • 25 citations

Self-esteem as moderator of the relationship between expectancies and job performance.

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Self-esteem and job complexity as moderators of performance and satisfaction

1975 • 23 citations

Self-esteem, race, and job satisfaction

1978 • 22 citations

Work Load of University Professors

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Interest congruency as a moderator of the relationships between job tenure and job satisfaction and mental health

1977 • 20 citations

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Ego-defensiveness as a determinant of reported differences in sources of job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction.

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Individual Actualization in Complex Organizations

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Self-esteem of industrial workers.

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Self-esteem as a moderator of the relationship between scientific interests and the job satisfaction of physicists and engineers.

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Self-esteem and the diffusion of leadership style.

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SELF‐PERCEIVED ABILITIES—RELEVANT IN THE TASK (SPART): A POTENTIAL PREDICTOR OF LABOR TURNOVER IN AN INDUSTRIAL WORK SETTING¹

1976 • 14 citations

The Hawthorne effect in reverse: Trainee orientation for the hard-core unemployed woman.

1972 • 13 citations

SELF‐CONCEPT AND INTERESTS RELATED TO JOB SATISFACTION OF MANAGERS

1973 • 12 citations

SOCIAL DESIRABILITY AS A MODERATOR OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION AND PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT

1974 • 11 citations

A TWO‐YEAR STUDY OF HARD‐CORE UNEMPLOYED CLERICAL WORKERS: EFFECTS OF SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT, CLERICAL SKILL, AND SELF‐ESTEEM ON JOB SUCCESS

1975 • 7 citations

Self-Esteem and the Relationship between Need-Fulfilment and Job Satisfaction

1974 • 6 citations

The consequences of unemployment on evaluations of self

1977 • 6 citations

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1975 • 6 citations

The Consequences Of Unemployment On Evaluations Of Self.

1977 • 5 citations

The Transferable Skills of a Manager.

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Self-ideal-self discrepancy as a defensive style

1974 • 4 citations

Status In Human Organization As A Determinant Of Mental-health And Performance.

1970 • 3 citations

Self-esteem as a moderator of the satisfaction/performance relationship : a multivariate approach

1974 • 3 citations

Job satisfaction among forest workers

1979 • 2 citations

SOCIAL DESIRABILITY AS AN INTERVENING VARIABLE IN INTERPRETING OD EFFECTS.

1973 • 2 citations

Some Characteristics Of Work Roles And Their Relationships To Self-esteem And Depression.

1975 • 1 citations

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1955 • 0 citations