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The effect of work role values on job satisfaction
Author(s) -
Mitchell Mary Beth
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1994.20050958.x
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , psychology , work (physics) , applied psychology , social psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering
The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between work roles, work role values and job satisfaction for registered nurses employed in the hospital setting in the USA A total of 201 nurses responded (33% response rate) to a survey instrument consisting of questions regarding work roles, work role values and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire Spearman's rank order and Pearson's product moment tests were earned out to determine the correlation between the three factors Although the resulting information was not statistically significant (r=0 12), the strength of this study lies in its conceptual and theoretical bases