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Endorsement of the money ethic, income, and life satisfaction: A comparison of full‐time employees, part‐time employees, and non‐employed university students

Thomas Li‐Ping Tang (Department of Management and Marketing, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfeesboro, Tennessee, USA)
Jwa K. Kim (Department of Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfeesboro, Tennessee, USA,)
Theresa Li‐Na Tang (FISI‐Cendant, Franklin, Tennessee, USA)

Journal of Managerial Psychology

ISSN: 0268-3946

Article publication date: 1 September 2002

Issue publication date: 1 September 2002

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Abstract

The present study investigated the money ethic scale among full‐time employees, part‐time employed students, and non‐employed university students. Confirmatory factor analyses results showed that there was a good fit between the three‐factor model and research data for full‐time employees and non‐employed students and a weaker fit for part‐time employees and the whole sample. Further, factors success and evil were predictors of income for full‐time employees. Money attitudes were not related to pay satisfaction. Factor budget was associated with life satisfaction for full‐time employees and non‐employed students. Full‐time employees in this sample tended to be older, male, and have higher education than part‐time employees and students. Non‐employed students tended to have higher life satisfaction, lower protestant work ethic, less type A behavior pattern, and think more strongly that money does not represent their success, that they budget money carefully, and that money is not evil than part‐time employees.

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Li‐Ping Tang, T., Kim, J.K. and Li‐Na Tang, T. (2002), "Endorsement of the money ethic, income, and life satisfaction: A comparison of full‐time employees, part‐time employees, and non‐employed university students", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 17 No. 6, pp. 442-467. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940210439388

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