A metaBUS-enabled meta-analysis of career satisfaction

Abstract

Purpose

In this study, the authors revisit the meta-analytic correlates of career satisfaction and demonstrate the use of metaBUS – a database repository of meta-analytic effect sizes and related information from the field of applied psychology. The purpose of this paper is to extend prior meta-analytic research on the topic of career satisfaction and compare the results from the metaBUS-enabled meta-analysis, with the results from meta-analyses that do not build on the repository.

Design/methodology/approach

A multilevel meta-analysis was conducted on all correlates available in the metaBUS database and the approach was described in a step-by-step fashion.

Findings

The demonstration reiterated some of the findings of prior meta-analyses, but also revealed considerable incongruity between the sample taken from the metaBUS database and the meta-analytic sample from studies that relied on non-metaBUS-based literature searches. Nevertheless, the results are similar in terms of the directions of the effects and the relative sizes of the effects.

Research limitations/implications

The paper demonstrates the use of the metaBUS database. In addition, results suggest that meta-analyses on career satisfaction might have suffered from sample selection issues, but further research is required in order to establish the source of the sample selection incongruence.

Originality/value

This is the first step-by-step demonstration of the use of metaBUS specifically for meta-analyses.

Citation

Lee, C.I.S.G., Bosco, F.A., Steel, P. and Uggerslev, K.L. (2017), "A metaBUS-enabled meta-analysis of career satisfaction", Career Development International, Vol. 22 No. 5, pp. 565-582. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-08-2017-0137