The threshold moderating effect of self-efficacy: a nonlinear transformation mechanism of work passion on job satisfaction among sports practitioners.

Notably, within the high-efficacy group (SE > 44), self-efficacy itself showed a marginally significant negative association with job satisfaction ( β = −0.542, p = 0.071), suggesting a potential saturation effect or complex interplay where very high efficacy, in the absence of sufficient passion or other factors, might not further enhance satisfaction and could even be associated with different dynamics (e.g., heightened sensitivity to unmet expectations).

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However, the standardized coefficient for the work passion×self-efficacy interaction term did not reach statistical significance ( β = 0.222, t = 1.686, p = 0.092); therefore, H5 was not supported.

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This result strongly suggests that when self-efficacy crosses the critical point (44) into the high-efficacy region, its independent contribution to satisfaction reaches saturation or even shows a slight trend of marginal diminishing returns, while work passion becomes a relatively more dominant driving factor.

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