Psychiatry related information on Job Satisfaction

• The authors conducted a study to assess and compare the level of job satisfaction among five groups of registered nurses working at UCLA Hospital. Fifty-seven female nurses completed the MMPI, Locus of Control Test, Work Environment Scale, and a questionnaire designed to assess job satisfaction [1].
• Chronic disabling LBP commonly is confounded by chronic pain, emotional troubles, poor job satisfaction, alcohol and narcotic abuse, and compensation issues, just to identify a few [2].

High impact information on Job Satisfaction

• For a subgroup of men classified as 'responders', who had significant increases in cortisol parallel with workload, significantly higher scores were found for peer ratings of their work competency, self-reported job satisfaction and their perception of freedom at work provided them by their supervisors [3].
• RESULTS: Control over work shows a strong effect on job satisfaction in anaesthetists, for example influence on handling tasks (P=0.001), time control (P=0.002) and participation (P=0.001), whereas task demands and task-related problems did not have any effect [4].
• Refining the measurement of physician job satisfaction: results from the Physician Worklife Survey. SGIM Career Satisfaction Study Group. Society of General Internal Medicine [5].
• Articles mentioning nurse shortage were more frequently placed on page 1, associated with clinical nursing in hospital settings and explained as the result of maldistribution of nurses, poor salaries, deficient working conditions and lack of job satisfaction [6].
• CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that GP job satisfaction has improved significantly from the low point reached following the introduction of the 1990/1991 NHS reforms, although reported levels of stress in relation to many aspects of work have continued to increase [7].

Chemical compound and disease context of Job Satisfaction

• Nurses on the Medicine unit tended to have lower overall job satisfaction than those in the other units [1].
• They reported also more job satisfaction and commitment than the district nurses in Zagreb [8].
• The theoretical foundation for the study was Herzberg's Dual Factor Theory of Job Satisfaction [9].
• Both role conflict and role ambiguity were inversely related to job satisfaction, providing Pearson Project Moment correlations of -.48 (P less than .001) and -.38 (P less than .001), respectively [10].
• Level of job satisfaction was measured using the Nursing Stress Index (Harris Hingley and Cooper 1988) [11].

Biological context of Job Satisfaction

• Fifty-nine IVF workers and 32 non-IVF workers (in routine obstetrics and gynaecology) completed a battery of standardized psychological questionnaires on the symptomatology of stress and in addition answered questions on workplace problems and work satisfaction [12].
• This article reports a descriptive research study of the role identity and job satisfaction of 43 staff community health nurses practicing in home health care, generalized public health nursing, combined public health/home health care (PH/HHC), and specialized programmes [13].

Gene context of Job Satisfaction

• OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to estimate physician job satisfaction at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), the Ministry of Health (SSA) and in the private sector, and to measure the association between these different family medical care organization models [14].
• Main study instruments were the Conditions for Work Effectiveness Questionnaire-II (CWEQ-II), the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI), the ICU Nurse-Physician Questionnaire, and the Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS), Part B [15].
• Job satisfaction correlates among Palestinian nurses in the West Bank [16].
• The mean work satisfaction score was 6.3 +/- 2.1 (moderate satisfaction) although 43 (13.3%) had very low scores (1-3) [17].
• To estimate this association in a sample of Turkish people, 361 physicians were selected among the total number of 5,959 working in Ankara City Center. A self-administered questionnaire including the Mach IV scale and Job Satisfaction scale developed by Kasapoğlu was applied to the subjects [18].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Job Satisfaction

• RESULTS: Factor analysis of 'work satisfaction' gave eight factors, 'patient care' four factors and 'staff health' two factors, explaining 52.2%, 56.4% and 56.8% of the variance [19].
• This study uses meta-analysis for reliability generalization and synthesis of construct validity of Part B of the Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS), a measure of job satisfaction [20].

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