Trait affect has been studied as a factor which may help explain why job attitudes tend to be rather enduring over time. In this study, test-retest correlations of various job attitudes measured 7 years apart were relatively unaffected by controlling for five measures of affective disposition.
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Schaubroeck et al. (1996) studied this question.
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