Attitudes toward money as related to intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction, stress and work-related attitudes

This study examines peoplesʹ attitudes toward money (the Money Ethic Scale, MES) as related to intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction, stress, and work-related attitudes in a sample of mental health workers. The results show that intrinsic job satisfaction is related to the attitude that money is freedom/power, whereas extrinsic job satisfaction is related to the notion that money is not evil. Workers with low organizational stress tend to see that money is good. Those who claim that they budget their money carefully tend to have high self-esteem, Type A personality, be older, have low organizational stress, and low income. Those who endorse Protestant Work Ethic tend to think that money represents achievement and money is good.