Aging and cohort factors alone do not explain the small positive correlation between age and job satisfaction, but their combined effects do.

Age and Job Satisfaction

Job satisfaction has a U-shaped relationship with age, with older employees reporting higher satisfaction than younger ones, and this pattern is similar to that observed in employees' context-free mental health.

Is job satisfaction U-shaped in age?

Older workers have higher job satisfaction due to job congruence and work locus of control, supporting the job change hypothesis.

An investigation of age-related factors in the age-job-satisfaction relationship.

Higher job satisfaction levels in older workers are not solely due to generational differences in education and value systems, but also may be a function of older workers having moved into better jobs across their careers.

Job Satisfaction and Age: A Test of Two Views

Job satisfaction increases with age, with older employees being more satisfied with extrinsic job characteristics and younger employees being less satisfied with intrinsic job characteristics.

Age, Education, Job Tenure, Salary, Job Characteristics, and Job Satisfaction: A Multivariate Analysis

Age indirectly positively affects work satisfaction through its relationship with work rewards and values, supporting the intrinsic reward-accommodation hypothesis.

Age and Work Satisfaction

Age positively influences job satisfaction, with a significant portion of these differences explained by age variations in work values and job rewards.

Aging, values, and rewards: explaining age differences in job satisfaction.

Age is a significant but weak predictor of job satisfaction, and future research should focus on psychological factors related to the aging process.

The age and job satisfaction relationship: does its shape and strength still evade us?

Longer tenure is significantly associated with job satisfaction, but age has a moderating effect on tenure's impact on satisfaction.

The relationships of age and length of service with job satisfaction: an examination of hotel employees in Thailand

A good workplace atmosphere and deserved recognition are the most reliable predictors of career satisfaction for employees over 50 in Romania.

Sustainable Careers: Reliability of Job Satisfaction Predictors for Employees Aged 50+. Evidence from Romanian Development Regions

Older workers tend to be more satisfied with their jobs than younger people, suggesting that older workers have better jobs.

Work Satisfaction and Age: Some Evidence for the ‘Job Change’ Hypothesis

Job satisfaction increases as people age and transition from organization to organization, while tenure decreases, with job rewards, such as pay, mediating these relationships.

Time and Job Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study of the Differential Roles of Age and Tenure

Job satisfaction is weaker for employees aged 50 and older, while the positive relationships with skill variety, autonomy, and friendship remain consistent across age groups.

Job Characteristics, Core Self-Evaluations, and Job Satisfaction: What's Age Got to Do with It?

A positive curvilinear relationship exists between age and job satisfaction, with implications for human resources management.

The Relationship between Age and Job Satisfaction: Curvilinear Results from an Empirical Study – A Research Note

Older employees need more intrinsic challenging jobs, while younger employees benefit more from career opportunities, highlighting the importance of career mentoring for all age groups.

Age-Differences in Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction. The Influence of Age on the Relationships between Work Characteristics and Workers' Outcomes

Self-employed individuals experience higher job satisfaction than paid employees, but only those in the final stage of their working life experience the same level of satisfaction.

Entrepreneurship and job satisfaction: the role of age

Employees' perceptions of HR practices positively influence their work-related attitudes, with the relationship strengthening with age and weakening with age for development practices.

The influence of age on the associations between HR practices and both affective commitment and job satisfaction: A meta‐analysis

Older academic age groups in North Cyprus generally have higher job satisfaction levels than younger age groups, with overall job satisfaction and extrinsic satisfaction levels varying across age groups.

The Age and Job Satisfaction Relationship in Higher Education

Age has stronger relationships with other job performance dimensions than core task performance, creativity, and training program performance.

The relationship of age to ten dimensions of job performance.

Academic rank and length of service in higher education significantly predict job satisfaction, while gender, age, and length of service in higher education do not directly affect satisfaction.

Personal correlates of job satisfaction: empirical evidence from UK universities

These studies suggest that age generally has a positive correlation with job satisfaction, influenced by factors such as job congruence, work values, and job rewards.