THE RELATION BETWEEN POSITIVE EMOTIONS AND RUMINATION WITH EMPLOYEE TURNOVER INTENTION. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON AVIATION EMPLOYEES

Positive emotions and turnover intention have been of considerable interest to the research community, while the study of rumination is a relatively new field. This paper attempts to investigate the relations between emotions, positive and negative, and rumination, with turnover intention. The research focuses on the Greek aviation sector, collecting data from 366 employees, for the conduct of which four questionnaires were used, one demographic and three related to the research variables. Specifically, the Positive and Negative Affect Scales, PANAS, the Rumination Scale and the short version of the Turnover Intention Scale were administered. Positive emotions were found to be unrelated to rumination and turnover intention. It appeared that rumination is positively related to negative emotions and turnover intention and that negative emotions are a predictive factor of turnover intention. The above is consistent with relevant findings of related studies. The study aspires to fill the gaps in literature and be a tool for dealing with and managing turnover intention, for HR departments in the aviation industry.