Experimental research suggests that high power and leadership result in the experience of more positive and less negative emotions; we don't find relation with power and subjective well-being or job satisfaction

Small and negligible? Evidence on the Relation Between Individuals’ Power in the Job Situation and their Satisfaction with Life and Job. Herbert Bless & Nadia Granato. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2018.1510779

Abstract: Experimental research suggests that high power and leadership result in the experience of more positive and less negative emotions. Extending these findings of experimental manipulations, we investigated relations between power and subjective well-being in a representative national survey. Defining power as the capability to administer resources or punishments, we inferred power from the number of people whom respondents supervise in their job. The results reflect a very small relation between this operationalization and individuals’ life and job satisfaction. The results suggest that prior experimental findings on the relation between power and satisfaction judgments cannot be applied directly to job situations.