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Golparvar, M & Abedini, H. (2014). A comprehensive study on the relationship between meaning and spirituality at work with job happiness, positive affect and job satisfaction.Management Science Letters , 4(2), 255-268.
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Agho, A. O., Price, J. L., & Mueller, C. W. (1992). Discriminant validity of measures of job satisfaction, positive affectivity and negative affectivity. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 65, 185-19.
Ashkanasy, N. M. (2011). International happiness: A multilevel perspective. Academy of Management Perspectives, 25(1), 23–30.
Barsade, S.G., & Gibson, D.E. (2007). Why does affect matter in organizations? Academy of Management Perspectives, 21, 36–59.
Boehm, J. K., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2008). Does happiness promote career success? Journal of Career Assessment, 16(1), 101-116.
Bowling, N. A., Eschleman, K. J., & Wang, Q. (2010). A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective well-being. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 83, 915-934
Brief, A. P., & Weiss, H. W. (2002). Organizational behavior: Affect in the workplace. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 279-307.
Brooke, C., & Parker, S. (2009). Researching spirituality and meaning in the workplace. The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 7(1), 1-10.
Cohrs, J. C., Abele, A.E., & Dette, D. E. (2006). Integrating situational and dispositional determinants of job satisfaction: findings from three samples of professionals. The Journal of Psychology, 140(4), 363-395.
Clark, L., Leedy, S., McDonald, L., Muller, B., Lamb, C., Mendez, T., et al. (2007). Spirituality and job satisfaction among hospice interdisciplinary team members. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 10(6), 1321-1328.
De Kok, C. A. (2013). Happiness at work: Are job satisfaction, job self- efficacy and trait emotional intelligence related? Unpublished Master of Art Thesis in Psychology, University of South Africa.
De Nevea, J. E., & Oswald, A, J. (2012). Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed effect. PNAS, 109(49), 19953–19958.
Downey, J. (2008). Hierarchy and happiness: The influence of emotion on administrative job satisfaction. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 32(8), 597–606.
Duckworth, A. L., Quinn, P. D., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2009). Positive predictors of teacher effectiveness. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4(6), 540–547.
Duggleby, W., Cooper, D., & Penz, K. (2009). Hope, self-efficacy, spiritual well-being and job satisfaction. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65(11), 2376-2385.
Eby, L.T., Mahar, C.P., & Butts, M.M. (2010). The intersection of work and family life: the role of affect. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 599-622.
Faulk, K. E., Gloria, C. T., Cance, J. D., & Steinhardt, M. A. (2012). Depressive symptoms among US military spouses during deployment: The protective effect of positive emotions. Armed Forces & Society, 38 (3), 373-390.
Fredrickson, B. L. (2009). Positivity. New York, NY: Crown Publishers.
Giacalone, R. A., & Jurkiewicz, C.L. (2010). Handbook of workplace spirituality and organizational performance. 2ed edition, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Gloria, C. T., Faulk, K. E., & Steinhardt, M. A. (2013). Positive affectivity predicts successful and unsuccessful adaptation to stress. Motivation and Emotion, 37(1), 185-193.
Golden, T.D., & Veiga, J.F. (2008). The impact of superior–subordinate relationships on the commitment, job satisfaction, and performance of virtual workers. Leadership Quarterly, 19, 77–88.
Golparvar, M. (2013a). Construct and validation of three dimensional scale of job happiness. Unpublished Manuscript, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan Branch, Esfahan, Iran.
Golparvar, M. (2013b). Translate and validation of meaning at work scale in Iran. Unpublished Manuscript, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan Branch, Esfahan, Iran.
Grandey, A. A., Tam, A. P., & Brauburger, A. L. (2002). Affective states and traits in the workplace: Diary and survey data from young workers. Motivation and Emotion, 26( 1), 35-55.
Harrison, D.A., Newman, D.A., & Roth, P.L. (2006). How important are job attitudes? Meta-analytic comparisons of integrative behavioral outcomes and time sequences. Academy of Management Journal, 49, 305-325.
Hartel, C. E. J., & Page, M. (2009). Discrete emotional crossover in the workplace: The role of affect intensity. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 24(3), 237-253.
Hasnain, N., Ansari, S.A., & Samantray, S. (2011). Spirituality and happiness as correlates of well-being in religious women. European Journal of Social Sciences, 20( 3), 431-442.
Ho, L.S. (2011). Human spirituality and happiness: A tribute to life the source of inspirations, the source of hope, the source of joy. 1th edition, United State of America, Author House, 168p.
Hooper, D., Coughlan, J., & Mullen, M. R. (2008). Structural equation modeling: Guidelines for Determining Model Fit. The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 6(1), 53 – 60.
Judge, T.A., Heller, D., & Klinger, R. (2008). The dispositional sources of job satisfaction: A comparative test. Journal of Applied Psychology, 57(3), 361–372.
Judge, T. A., & Ilies, R. (2004). Affect and job satisfaction: A study of their relationship at work and at home. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89 ( 4), 661–673.
Judge, T.A., & Klinger, R. (2008). Job satisfaction: Subjective well-being at work. In M. Eid & R.J. Larsen (Eds.), The science of subjective well-being (pp. 393–413). New York: Guilford Press.
Kaplan, S.A., Warren, C.R., Barsky, A.P., & Thoresen, C.J. (2009). A note on the relationship between affect(ivity) and differing conceptualizations of job satisfaction: Some unexpected findings. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 18, 29–54.
Karakas, F. (2010). Spirituality and performance in organizations: a literature review. Journal of Business Ethics, 94(1), 89–106.
Kinjerski, V., & Skrypnek, B.J. (2006). Measuring the intangible: Development of the Spirit at Work Scale. Paper Presented at the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, 16 pp.
Lyubomisky, S., & Lepper, S. H. (1999). A measure of subjective happiness: Preliminary reliability and construct validation. Social Indicators Research, 46, 137-155.
Macdonald, S., & Maclntyre, P. (1997). The Generic Job Satisfaction Scale: scale development and its correlates. Employee Assistance Quarterly, l3 (2), 1-16.
Nelson, D. W., & Knight, A. E. (2010). The power of positive recollections: Reducing test anxiety and enhancing college student efficacy and performance. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(3), 732–745.
Preacher, K. J., & Hayes, A. F. (2004). SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36 (4), 717-731.
Pryce- Jones, J. (2010). Happiness at work: Maximizing your psychological capital for success. 1st edition, Wiley-Blackwell, West Sussex.
Rode, J. C. (2004). Job satisfaction and life satisfaction revisited: A longitudinal test of an integrated model. Human Relations, 57(9), 1205-1230.
Rosso, B. D., Dekas, K. H., & Wrzesniewski, A. (2010). On the meaning of work: A theoretical integration and review. Research in Organizational Behavior, 30, 91–127.
Sharma, S., Mukherjee, S., Kumar, A., & Dillon, W.R. (2005). A simulation study to investigate the use of cutoff values for assessing model fit in covariance structure models. Journal of Business Research, 58 (1), 935-43.
Steger, M. F., & Dik, B. J. (2009). If one is searching for meaning in life, does meaning in work help? Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 1, 303–320.
Steger, M.F., Dik, B.J., & Duffy, R.D. (2012). Measuring meaningful work: The Work as Meaning Inventory (WAMI). Journal of Career Assessment, 20, 322-337.
Steiger, J.H. (2007). Understanding the limitations of global fit assessment in structural equation modeling. Personality and Individual Differences, 42 (5), 893-98.
Tabachnick, B.G., & Fidell, L.S. (2007). Using multivariate statistics. 5th ed, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Van Katwyk, P.T., Fox ,S., Spector, P.E., & Kelloway, E.K. (2000). Using the job-Related Affective Well-Being Scale (JAWS) to investigate affective responses to work stressors. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5(2), 219-230.
Volmer, J., Niessen, C., Spurk, D., Linz, A., & Abele, A. E. (2011). Reciprocal relationships between leader–member exchange (LMX) and job satisfaction: A cross-lagged analysis. Applied Psychology, 60(4), 522-545.
Wang, S., & Yi, X. (2011). It’s happiness that counts: Full mediating effect of job satisfaction on the linkage from LMX to turnover intention in Chinese companies. International Journal of Leadership Studies, 6 (3), 337-356.
Warr, P. (2009). Environmental “vitamins”, personal judgments, work values, and happiness. in S. Cartwright and C. Cooper (eds.) The oxford handbook of organizational well-being (pp. 57-85). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Warr, P. B. (2013). Jobs and job-holders: Two sources of happiness and unhappiness. In S. A. D, I.Boniwell, & A. C. Ayers (eds.), The oxford handbook of happiness (pp.733-750). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Warr, P., & Clapperton, G. (2009). The joy of work? Jobs, happiness, and you. London: Routledge.
Warr, P. B., & Inceoglu, I. (2012). Job engagement, job satisfaction, and contrasting associations with person-job fit. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 17, 129-138.
Wicker, D. (2011). Job satisfaction: fact or fiction. Bloomington, IN: Author House.
Young, K.W. (2012). Positive effects of spirituality on quality of life for people with severe mental illness. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 16(2), 62-77.
Albano, J. F. Jr. (2009). Developing a measure and an understanding of the individual experience of happiness at work. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation in Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center , San Francisco, California.
Agho, A. O., Price, J. L., & Mueller, C. W. (1992). Discriminant validity of measures of job satisfaction, positive affectivity and negative affectivity. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 65, 185-19.
Ashkanasy, N. M. (2011). International happiness: A multilevel perspective. Academy of Management Perspectives, 25(1), 23–30.
Barsade, S.G., & Gibson, D.E. (2007). Why does affect matter in organizations? Academy of Management Perspectives, 21, 36–59.
Boehm, J. K., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2008). Does happiness promote career success? Journal of Career Assessment, 16(1), 101-116.
Bowling, N. A., Eschleman, K. J., & Wang, Q. (2010). A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective well-being. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 83, 915-934
Brief, A. P., & Weiss, H. W. (2002). Organizational behavior: Affect in the workplace. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 279-307.
Brooke, C., & Parker, S. (2009). Researching spirituality and meaning in the workplace. The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 7(1), 1-10.
Cohrs, J. C., Abele, A.E., & Dette, D. E. (2006). Integrating situational and dispositional determinants of job satisfaction: findings from three samples of professionals. The Journal of Psychology, 140(4), 363-395.
Clark, L., Leedy, S., McDonald, L., Muller, B., Lamb, C., Mendez, T., et al. (2007). Spirituality and job satisfaction among hospice interdisciplinary team members. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 10(6), 1321-1328.
De Kok, C. A. (2013). Happiness at work: Are job satisfaction, job self- efficacy and trait emotional intelligence related? Unpublished Master of Art Thesis in Psychology, University of South Africa.
De Nevea, J. E., & Oswald, A, J. (2012). Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed effect. PNAS, 109(49), 19953–19958.
Downey, J. (2008). Hierarchy and happiness: The influence of emotion on administrative job satisfaction. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 32(8), 597–606.
Duckworth, A. L., Quinn, P. D., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2009). Positive predictors of teacher effectiveness. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4(6), 540–547.
Duggleby, W., Cooper, D., & Penz, K. (2009). Hope, self-efficacy, spiritual well-being and job satisfaction. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65(11), 2376-2385.
Eby, L.T., Mahar, C.P., & Butts, M.M. (2010). The intersection of work and family life: the role of affect. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 599-622.
Faulk, K. E., Gloria, C. T., Cance, J. D., & Steinhardt, M. A. (2012). Depressive symptoms among US military spouses during deployment: The protective effect of positive emotions. Armed Forces & Society, 38 (3), 373-390.
Fredrickson, B. L. (2009). Positivity. New York, NY: Crown Publishers.
Giacalone, R. A., & Jurkiewicz, C.L. (2010). Handbook of workplace spirituality and organizational performance. 2ed edition, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Gloria, C. T., Faulk, K. E., & Steinhardt, M. A. (2013). Positive affectivity predicts successful and unsuccessful adaptation to stress. Motivation and Emotion, 37(1), 185-193.
Golden, T.D., & Veiga, J.F. (2008). The impact of superior–subordinate relationships on the commitment, job satisfaction, and performance of virtual workers. Leadership Quarterly, 19, 77–88.
Golparvar, M. (2013a). Construct and validation of three dimensional scale of job happiness. Unpublished Manuscript, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan Branch, Esfahan, Iran.
Golparvar, M. (2013b). Translate and validation of meaning at work scale in Iran. Unpublished Manuscript, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan Branch, Esfahan, Iran.
Grandey, A. A., Tam, A. P., & Brauburger, A. L. (2002). Affective states and traits in the workplace: Diary and survey data from young workers. Motivation and Emotion, 26( 1), 35-55.
Harrison, D.A., Newman, D.A., & Roth, P.L. (2006). How important are job attitudes? Meta-analytic comparisons of integrative behavioral outcomes and time sequences. Academy of Management Journal, 49, 305-325.
Hartel, C. E. J., & Page, M. (2009). Discrete emotional crossover in the workplace: The role of affect intensity. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 24(3), 237-253.
Hasnain, N., Ansari, S.A., & Samantray, S. (2011). Spirituality and happiness as correlates of well-being in religious women. European Journal of Social Sciences, 20( 3), 431-442.
Ho, L.S. (2011). Human spirituality and happiness: A tribute to life the source of inspirations, the source of hope, the source of joy. 1th edition, United State of America, Author House, 168p.
Hooper, D., Coughlan, J., & Mullen, M. R. (2008). Structural equation modeling: Guidelines for Determining Model Fit. The Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 6(1), 53 – 60.
Judge, T.A., Heller, D., & Klinger, R. (2008). The dispositional sources of job satisfaction: A comparative test. Journal of Applied Psychology, 57(3), 361–372.
Judge, T. A., & Ilies, R. (2004). Affect and job satisfaction: A study of their relationship at work and at home. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89 ( 4), 661–673.
Judge, T.A., & Klinger, R. (2008). Job satisfaction: Subjective well-being at work. In M. Eid & R.J. Larsen (Eds.), The science of subjective well-being (pp. 393–413). New York: Guilford Press.
Kaplan, S.A., Warren, C.R., Barsky, A.P., & Thoresen, C.J. (2009). A note on the relationship between affect(ivity) and differing conceptualizations of job satisfaction: Some unexpected findings. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 18, 29–54.
Karakas, F. (2010). Spirituality and performance in organizations: a literature review. Journal of Business Ethics, 94(1), 89–106.
Kinjerski, V., & Skrypnek, B.J. (2006). Measuring the intangible: Development of the Spirit at Work Scale. Paper Presented at the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, 16 pp.
Lyubomisky, S., & Lepper, S. H. (1999). A measure of subjective happiness: Preliminary reliability and construct validation. Social Indicators Research, 46, 137-155.
Macdonald, S., & Maclntyre, P. (1997). The Generic Job Satisfaction Scale: scale development and its correlates. Employee Assistance Quarterly, l3 (2), 1-16.
Nelson, D. W., & Knight, A. E. (2010). The power of positive recollections: Reducing test anxiety and enhancing college student efficacy and performance. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(3), 732–745.
Preacher, K. J., & Hayes, A. F. (2004). SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36 (4), 717-731.
Pryce- Jones, J. (2010). Happiness at work: Maximizing your psychological capital for success. 1st edition, Wiley-Blackwell, West Sussex.
Rode, J. C. (2004). Job satisfaction and life satisfaction revisited: A longitudinal test of an integrated model. Human Relations, 57(9), 1205-1230.
Rosso, B. D., Dekas, K. H., & Wrzesniewski, A. (2010). On the meaning of work: A theoretical integration and review. Research in Organizational Behavior, 30, 91–127.
Sharma, S., Mukherjee, S., Kumar, A., & Dillon, W.R. (2005). A simulation study to investigate the use of cutoff values for assessing model fit in covariance structure models. Journal of Business Research, 58 (1), 935-43.
Steger, M. F., & Dik, B. J. (2009). If one is searching for meaning in life, does meaning in work help? Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 1, 303–320.
Steger, M.F., Dik, B.J., & Duffy, R.D. (2012). Measuring meaningful work: The Work as Meaning Inventory (WAMI). Journal of Career Assessment, 20, 322-337.
Steiger, J.H. (2007). Understanding the limitations of global fit assessment in structural equation modeling. Personality and Individual Differences, 42 (5), 893-98.
Tabachnick, B.G., & Fidell, L.S. (2007). Using multivariate statistics. 5th ed, Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Van Katwyk, P.T., Fox ,S., Spector, P.E., & Kelloway, E.K. (2000). Using the job-Related Affective Well-Being Scale (JAWS) to investigate affective responses to work stressors. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5(2), 219-230.
Volmer, J., Niessen, C., Spurk, D., Linz, A., & Abele, A. E. (2011). Reciprocal relationships between leader–member exchange (LMX) and job satisfaction: A cross-lagged analysis. Applied Psychology, 60(4), 522-545.
Wang, S., & Yi, X. (2011). It’s happiness that counts: Full mediating effect of job satisfaction on the linkage from LMX to turnover intention in Chinese companies. International Journal of Leadership Studies, 6 (3), 337-356.
Warr, P. (2009). Environmental “vitamins”, personal judgments, work values, and happiness. in S. Cartwright and C. Cooper (eds.) The oxford handbook of organizational well-being (pp. 57-85). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Warr, P. B. (2013). Jobs and job-holders: Two sources of happiness and unhappiness. In S. A. D, I.Boniwell, & A. C. Ayers (eds.), The oxford handbook of happiness (pp.733-750). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Warr, P., & Clapperton, G. (2009). The joy of work? Jobs, happiness, and you. London: Routledge.
Warr, P. B., & Inceoglu, I. (2012). Job engagement, job satisfaction, and contrasting associations with person-job fit. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 17, 129-138.
Wicker, D. (2011). Job satisfaction: fact or fiction. Bloomington, IN: Author House.
Young, K.W. (2012). Positive effects of spirituality on quality of life for people with severe mental illness. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 16(2), 62-77.