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Quality of working life and job satisfaction in health and educational workers. ¿are there differences?


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Title:
Quality of working life and job satisfaction in health and educational workers. ¿are there differences?
Authors:
Marzo Campos, Juan Carlos
Rodríguez Jarabo, Beatriz
Pérez Jover, María Virtudes
Ramos López, María Amparo
Editor:
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
Department:
Departamentos de la UMH::Psicología de la Salud
Issue Date:
2022-01
URI:
https://hdl.handle.net/11000/28157
Abstract:
La mayoría de los estudios sobre la calidad de vida laboral (WLQ) muestran que la satisfacción laboral (JS) es una de las variables más importantes relacionadas con WLQ. Sin embargo, gran parte de la investigación no define con precisión estos dos conceptos y utiliza indistintamente ambos, o entien...  Ver más
Most studies on quality of working life (WLQ) shown that job satisfaction (JS) is one of the most important variables related to WLQ. However, much of the research does not accurately define these two concepts and use indistinctly both of them, or to understand WLQ as a dimension/determinant of JS, or JS as a dimension/determinant of WLQ. Numerous studies from the 1970s do not resolve these questions. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the relationship between JS and WLQ, particularly in service companies. For do it, we conducted a cross-sectional study to establish: 1) if socio-demographic and work characteristics imply differences between JS and WLQ; 2) if there are differences between JS and WLQ and if working sector entails any differences; and 3) if the JS is a good predictor of the WLQ. Method: 395 health workers and educational employees of the province of Alicante (Spain) were entered the study through a random mode. We used for data collection an Information form (socio-demographic and work variables), the Font-Roja Job Satisfaction Scale, and the Cabezas Quality of Work Life Questionnaire. Results: There were no differences in WLQ nor JS between men and women. Women felt more satisfied than men only relating to JS associated with the workload do. There were also no differences between men and women in WLQ. Not found differences in JS between health workers and educational workers, except in the case of the JS associated with the Labour Pressure (health workers had more JS than educational workers did). These professionals Health workers also perceived better WLQ. WLQ and JS were positively related. The best predictors of the WLQ are gender, the working sector, total JS, and JS related to Job Competency, related to the workload, and related to work pressure. Conclusions: We have obtained empirical results that allow us to affirm that the JS is an important determinant (but not a dimension) of the WLQ, so these two variables cannot be confused. In this sense, this work helps to clarify the concepts of WLQ and JS and their relationships, in the particular subsector of services companies
Keywords/Subjects:
Calidad de vida laboral
Satisfacción laboral
Sexo
Empresas de servicios
Trabajadores educativos
Trabajadores sanitarios
Quality of work life
job satisfaction
service companies
gender
educational workers
health workers
Knowledge area:
. Psicología
Type of document:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Access rights:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Appears in Collections:
Vol. 9 Núm. 1 (2021)



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