Tell me why I don't like Mondays: investigating day of the week effects on job satisfaction and psychological well-being

The paper explores the relationship between the day of the week on which a survey respondent is interviewed and their self-reported job satisfaction and mental health scores by using data from the British Household Panel Survey. Evidence presented here confirms that selfreported levels of job satisf...

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Published in:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society Statistics in society, 2006-01, Vol.169 (1), p.127-142
Main Author: Taylor, Mark P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applications
Biology, psychology, social sciences
British Household Panel Survey
Coefficients
Employment
Estimation bias
Exact sciences and technology
Great Britain
Human resources
Job Satisfaction
Leisure time
Mathematics
Medical sciences
Men
Mental Health
Mental stress
Panel data
Probability and statistics
Psychological interviews
Sampling theory, sample surveys
Sciences and techniques of general use
Sociology of work
Statistical analysis
Statistical methods
Statistics
Survey data
United Kingdom
Variable coefficients
Well Being
Wellbeing
Working women
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Summary:The paper explores the relationship between the day of the week on which a survey respondent is interviewed and their self-reported job satisfaction and mental health scores by using data from the British Household Panel Survey. Evidence presented here confirms that selfreported levels of job satisfaction and subjective levels of mental distress systematically vary according to the day of the week on which respondents are interviewed even when controlling for other observed and unobserved characteristics. However, we find that the main conclusions from previous studies of the determinants of job satisfaction and mental well-being are robust to the inclusion of day-of-interview controls.
ISSN:0964-1998
1467-985X
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00376.x