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Turnover Intentions and Turnover: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Affectivity

Ritter, Charles H.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1354230434

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2012, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Arts and Sciences).
Turnover is a costly problem for organizations, with severe consequences for individuals (Hom & Griffeth, 1995). Because turnover intentions are the best predictor of turnover (Griffeth, Hom, & Gaertner, 2000), our ability to explain and predict individual voluntary turnover decisions depends upon our understanding of the intentions-turnover relationship. Allen, Weeks, and Moffitt (2005) suggested that dispositional affectivity moderates this relationship. Using a sample of 443 U.S. insurance company employees and hierarchical moderator logistic regression, I found that dispositional affectivity (i.e., positive affectivity [PA] and negative affectivity [NA]) jointly moderated the turnover intentions-turnover relationship. As hypothesized, the positive relationship was strong when employees are high in PA and low in NA, signifying the presence of an approach system and the dormancy of an inhibition system (Watson, Wiese, Vaidya, & Tellegen, 1999), and weak for the other combinations. This study contributes to the turnover field by helping to explain the moderate strength and wide variance of the intentions-turnover relationship, and by suggesting a role for dispositional affectivity. Inclusion of the three-way interaction improved the substantive significance of a model with established turnover variables. This extends the traditional role of dispositional affectivity beyond a direct effects predictor, encouraging the field to pay greater attention to personality.
Rodger Griffeth, PhD (Advisor)
73 p.
Organizational Behavior; Personality; Psychology
turnover intentions; turnover; dispositional affectivity; positive affectivity; negative affectivity

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  • Ritter, C. H. (2012). Turnover Intentions and Turnover: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Affectivity [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1354230434

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ritter, Charles. Turnover Intentions and Turnover: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Affectivity. 2012. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1354230434.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ritter, Charles. "Turnover Intentions and Turnover: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Affectivity." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1354230434

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