Abstract
The associations of character strengths with job satisfaction and work performance have recently been studied. However, the questions whether different professions are characterized by different strengths, and whether different strengths explain desired outcomes in different professions remain unresolved. The present study sought to identify the character strengths most highly endorsed by airline pilots and most highly used in a typical pilot’s workday. The study also aimed to determine which strengths are most highly associated with pilots’ life and job satisfaction, and most predictive of specific work performance. Israeli airline pilots (N = 177) completed measures of strengths endorsement, strengths use, life satisfaction, and job satisfaction. Participants’ crew resource management (CRM) behaviors were assessed to reflect actual job performance. Findings pointed to various character strength profiles related to the examined personal and work aspects. These findings highlight the contribution of specific strengths to satisfaction and performance of airline pilots. Implications regarding the potential interaction between organization culture and personal strengths are addressed.
Highlights
This study aimed to identify character strengths most highly endorsed by and most highly used in a typical work day of airline pilots, as well as strengths most highly associated with life and job satisfaction, and most predictive of crew resource management (CRM) behaviors, specific work performance sought out attributes of airline pilots
Life satisfaction for airline pilots was found to be most associated with character strengths of hope, curiosity, zest, integrity, and gratitude
Job satisfaction for airline pilots was found to be most associated with strengths of zest, hope, leadership, humor, and gratitude
Summary
The strengths most frequently ranked last across these countries were prudence, modesty, self-regulation, spirituality, and zest (Park et al, 2006). These findings were replicated eight years later, using a sample of more than one million participants from 75 nations, supporting substantial cross-cultural similarity in the endorsement of character strengths (McGrath, 2015). Several studies (e.g., Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004; Park & Peterson, 2008) have identified the strengths of hope, zest, gratitude, love, and curiosity as most substantially related to life satisfaction. In a longitudinal study, these five strengths foreshadowed life satisfaction measured months later, even when their initial levels were controlled (Park & Peterson, 2008)
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