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dc.contributor.advisorVittersø, Joar
dc.contributor.authorWarholm, Vegard Stokka
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-29T12:10:50Z
dc.date.available2011-11-29T12:10:50Z
dc.date.issued2010-05-14
dc.description.abstractResearch within neurobiology has provided evidence for two distinctive classes of positive emotion, represented by separate brain systems called the “reward seeking-” (appetitive) and the “pleasure-” (consummatory) system (Burgdorf & Panksepp 2006). Recently, happiness research has provided empirical evidence for a distinction between the emotions “interest” and “pleasure” (Vittersø, Overwien & Martinsen, 2009), which share remarkably much of the same qualities and functions as the respective brain systems. In organizational science there has been a long lasting debate whether employee happiness promotes job-performance. This study aimed to show how and why pleasure and interest should be analyzed as separate emotions in an organizational context. By this route the thesis contributes new knowledge to the controversy of the “Happy - Productive Worker”. Knowledge workers (N = 53) working in an energy corporation in Norway participated in the study, and answered a maximum of five events reconstruction samplings during one workweek (N = 170). By using a multilevel design both within-person- and between-person variance is analyzed. By analyzing a series of events, the results showed that pleasant feelings promoted event satisfaction whereas interest promoted event achievement. Hence, interest and pleasure interact with job-related skill development in distinct ways. A path model suggested that interest predicted skill improvement indirectly through event achievement. Interest and pleasure were only moderately correlated with each other.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/3695
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_3409
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUniversitetet i Tromsøen
dc.publisherUniversity of Tromsøen
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2010 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDPSY-3900en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Psychology: 260::Organizational psychology: 268en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Psychology: 260::Other psychology disciplines: 279en
dc.subjectemotionsen
dc.subjectinteresten
dc.subjectpleasureen
dc.subjectemployee happinessen
dc.subjectsatisfactionen
dc.subjectevent reconstruction methoden
dc.subjectmultilevel analysisen
dc.subjectjob performanceen
dc.subjectskill improvementen
dc.titleGood feelings and increased job performance : pleasure and interest as predictors of skill improvement and work achievement among Norwegian job-holdersen
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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