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What do we know about translators’ job satisfaction? An exploratory overview of research results
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5093-5598
2024 (English)In: Translation Spaces, ISSN 2211-3711, E-ISSN 2211-372X, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 1-25Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article is an exploratory overview of research on translators’ job satisfaction (JS). We analyze the data (51 articles) for indications of (1) translators’ overall JS; (2) associations of overall JS with individual, job-intrinsic, job-extrinsic, societal, and background factors; (3) translators’ satisfaction with job-intrinsic, job-extrinsic, and societal aspects of their work. Translators’ overall JS in the data is fairly high, and it is linked to emotional intelligence, the nature of translating, autonomy, interpersonal relationships, status perceptions, working mode, gender, and experience. The translators studied are mostly happy with the job-intrinsic aspects, but their views on extrinsic and societal aspects are more divided. Gaps in research include individual factors (e.g., self-efficacy, personality traits), background factors (e.g., cultural and socio-economic differences), and the interaction of the different types of factors.

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2024. Vol. 13, no 1, p. 1-25
Keywords [en]
job satisfaction, job-related happiness, happiness at work, well-being at work, job perceptions, translation psychology, translator studies
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
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Translation Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-228369DOI: 10.1075/ts.23019.ruoISI: 001224799500007Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85190582880OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-228369DiVA, id: diva2:1851455
Available from: 2024-04-15 Created: 2024-04-15 Last updated: 2024-06-18Bibliographically approved

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