Abstract
Using data from a convenience sample of white-collar employees from the US and Turkey, the study tests the mediational role of rumination in the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective well-being and also investigates the moderational role of self-efficacy in this model. The results suggest that people who are less satisfied with their job ruminate more and therefore, they feel less satisfied and less happy. High self-efficacy is found to negate this mediation. Also, Turkish respondents ruminate more, and therefore they feel less happy, suggesting a potential cultural difference in proneness to ruminate and worry.