THE DETERMINANT FACTORS OF WORKER’S SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING.
- Faculty of Psychology Surabaya University, Indonesia.
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The objective of this research is to trace effect of the individual factor (intrinsic) including sense of humor, personality type of the big five personality, gratitude, and situational factors (extrinsic) consist of social support, work reward, and work condition of subjective well- being, finally it will be known the determinant factors of subjective well-being for the worker in the organization in Indonesia. The research subjects are 139 workers and 56 supervisors in the PT. Y. The Collecting data method use closed and opened questionnaire, observation, interview and focus group discussion. To understand different between subjective well-being viewed from work level and gender is used statistic analysis, those are the regression analysis and t-test. Sense of humor and social support become determinant of high-low subjective well- being PT. Y’s labors. At supervisor, predictor of subjective well-being are personality type variable of openness to experience, agreeableness, gratitude and work reward. The result show that labor’s subjective well-being is higher than supervisor, because positive psychology centered to the meaning of life, that is, how persons give a meaning everything happen of their life. For supervisor, work reward is tool for self actualization, those are, prestigious, autonomy, safety, and protect, while for labors, work reward is used to fulfill basic needs. This matter makes labors more satisfied easily with work reward that is gotten because the work opportunity is also more limited.
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