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Over-education is a current phenomenon, which hampers job satisfaction. Finding variables that moderates the deteriorating effect of over-education could be useful.
Present study analyses the relationship between over-education and intrinsic, extrinsic and social facets of job satisfaction, and the moderation role of career enhancing strategies and job insecurity.
Sample was composed of 1362 participants 16–30 years-old that entered the job market in the previous five years, from the 2011 cohort of the Spanish Observatory for Labor Entry of Youth. Analyses were made using Process Macro.
Results show that all direct relationships are significant, and that career enhancing strategies moderated the relationship between over-education and social and extrinsic job satisfaction.
Findings provides insights regarding strategies to buffer the detrimental effects that over-education had for young employees’ job satisfaction.

Bedemariam, R. y J. Ramos (2021). «Over-education and job satisfaction: The role of job insecurity and career enhancing strategies=Sur-éducation et satisfaction au travail: le rôle de l’insécurité d’emploi et des stratégies d’avancement professionnel». European Review of Applied Psychology 71, n.º 3 (mayo): 100632.