Job satisfaction among health care workers: the role of gender and age

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the influence of gender and age on the quality of the professional lives of health care professionals at a university hospital. METHOD: a total of 546 professionals completed a general questionnaire that measured sociodemographic variables and evaluated job satisfaction using a scale adopted from the NTP 394 Job Satisfaction scale and translated into Spanish. RESULTS: overall, 77.2% of the professionals surveyed were satisfied with the work they perform. With regards to gender, we found overwhelming evidence of the feminization of practically all health care professions included in the study, with higher levels of job satisfaction among women than men. Regarding age, 20-30-year-olds and professionals over 61 years old showed higher satisfaction levels than did middle-aged professionals. Higher levels of dissatisfaction were reported by professionals between 41 and 50 years old. CONCLUSIONS: we were able to detect the influence of gender and age on the level of job satisfaction, finding significant associations between job satisfaction and both of these variables. Generally, women expressed more satisfaction than men, and elderly professionals showed higher satisfaction compared to younger professionals. Management policies should focus on taking action to correct the conditions that produce dissatisfaction among certain groups of employees.

Satisfaction of the Service Provider with the Organization of the Timely Cervical Cancer Detection Program

“…On the other hand, in a study carried out by Adams in 2000, it is found that at older age there is a greater dissatisfaction due to the monotony of work [10], and in the present investigation it was found that the young population reported being more dissatisfied in most categories, unlike older service providers. In this study, the male population was most satisfied, in contrast to was found in a study carried out by Carrillo and co-workers in 2013, which indicates that women show greater satisfaction than men with work or activity they perform [11].…”

Role of demographic and job-related variables in determining work-related quality of life of hospital employees

“…[18] However, some studies on health-care workers have identified a significant relationship between WRQoL and gender. [414]…”

“…[34] In comparison to other quality of work life scales, the WRQoL scale is unique as it measures various factors related to work as well as nonwork factors like general well-being (GWB) in addition to the “homework interface” (HWI). [45] This study attempts to validate the bilingual (English and Marathi) WRQoL scale and assess the WRQoL perceived by employees of a corporate hospital in Pune City.…”

Análisis psicométrico de la Escala de Satisfacción Laboral de Warr, Cook y Wall en una muestra multiocupacional de Arequipa, Perú

“…De ahí que diseñaron una escala bidimensional para medir la sa sfacción laboral, sin embargo, aunque ha sido muy u lizada en contextos laborales, en diferentes grupos profesionales y en varios países (Flores, 2001;Raineri, 2007;Alonso, 2008;Tejedo, 2013;Alonso, Pozo, Hernán-dez, Díaz, Mar nez, & Valera, 2005;Fernández, 2008;Herrera-Amaya, & Manrique-Abril, 2008;Bobbio, & Ramos, 2010;Carrillo-García, Solano-Ruíz, Mar nez-Roche, & Gómez-García, 2013;Escobedo, Cuautle, Maynez, & Estebané, 2014;Depolo, & Bruni, 2015;Goetz, Marx, Marx, Brodowski, Nafula, Prytherch, Omogi Awour, & Szecsenyi, 2015); recientes estudios psicométricos, hechos en el Perú, no han podido verificar su estructura bifactorial (Boluarte, 2014;Boluarte, & Merino, 2015).En ese sen do, la sa sfacción laboral en el Perú, es un tema que ha sido tocado por los estudios empíricos de Federico León, quien realizó un análi-sis de los constructos y supuestos teóricos de la teoría bifactorial de Herzberg (León, & Sepúlveda, 1979) y de la teoría instrumental de Vroom (León, 1981). Aunque en un primer momento, los estudios sobre sa sfacción laboral, se llevaron a cabo, principalmente, en la ciudad de Lima; en los úl mos años, nuevos estudios se han realizado en la ciudad de Arequipa.…”