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Cognitive Reflection, Life Satisfaction, Emotional Balance and Job Performance

Mario Lado, Inmaculada Otero, and Jesús F. Salgado

University of Santiago de Compostela

Background: The validity of individual difference variables for predicting important life phenomena, such as job performance, has been studied for over a century. However, the relationships between some of them have scarcely been investigated. This paper presents a study on the relationship between cognitive reflection (CR), satisfaction with life (SWL), and emotional balance (EB) with job performance. Method: The participants were 245 managers (140 men and 105 women) working in companies in various economic sectors. Results: The results showed that CR was not significantly related to job performance but that SWL and EB were valid predictors. Moreover, CR correlated significantly with SWL and EB. Multiple regression analysis showed that neither CR nor EB showed incremental validity over SWL in predicting job performance. Conclusions: These findings suggest that CR may not be an important variable in the workplace, at least regarding job performance, and that it is not a fully cognitive construct because some degree of its variance may be shared with motivational and personality traits.

Reflexividad Cognitiva, Satisfacción con la Vida, Equilibrio Emocional y Desempeño en el Puesto de Trabajo. Antecedentes: la relación del desempeño ocupacional con variables de diferencias individuales se ha investigado durante casi un siglo, aunque su relación con la reflexividad cognitiva (RC), la satisfacción con la vida (SCV) y el equilibrio emocional (EE) ha sido escasamente estudiada, por ello, el objetivo principal de este artículo es examinar la relación entre RC, SCV y EE con el desempeño en el trabajo. Método: participaron 245 directivos (140 hombres y 105 mujeres) de empresas de diferentes sectores económicos. Resultados: SCV y EE fueron predictores válidos del desempeño en el puesto pero no RC. Análisis de regresión múltiple indicaron que ni RC ni EE añadían validez sobre la SCV para predecir el desempeño en el puesto. Conclusiones: los resultados sugieren que RC podría no ser una variable relevante en el lugar de trabajo, al menos en relación con el desempeño ocupacional, y que no se trata de un constructo totalmente cognitivo, ya que una parte de su varianza podría estar explicada por rasgos motivacionales y de la personalidad.

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