A Study on Influential Factors upon Job Satisfaction in Elderly Medical Welfare Facilities Workers

Abstract

This study is a descriptive research, which identified the extent of emotional labor and long term care service self-efficacy of elderly medical welfare facilities workers and explored the effects of those two factors on their job satisfaction. For its research, the study conducted a questionnaire survey for 155 workers at six geriatric hospitals of D city form April, 18 to April 26, 2014 after getting approval from IRB. Collected data was analyzed by using SPSS Win 19.0 program. The level of emotional labor marked 3.63, long term service self-efficacy marked 4.44 and their job satisfaction marked 4.13. In regard to relationship between emotional labor, long term care service self-efficacy and job satisfaction, there was statistically significant correlation only between long term care service self-efficacy and job satisfaction. The long term service self-efficacy, religion and night shift explained 34.1% of job satisfaction. Therefor, long term care service self-efficacy affects as a precedence of their job satisfaction, there must follow specialized Received (June 12, 2015), Review Request(June 15, 2015), Review Result(June 30, 2015) Accepted(July 21, 2015), Published(August 31, 2015) Doctoral candidate, Graduate school, konyang University, Seogu, Daejeon, Korea email: gudtnr5625@naver.com (Corresponding Author) 302-718 Dept. Nursing Science, Konyang Univ., Kwasuwon-dong, Seogu, Daejeon, Korea email: sjhan@konyang.ac.kr A study on influential factors upon job satisfaction in elderly medical welfare facilities workers Copyright c 2015 HSST 406 and systematic education for them to enhance their long term care service self-efficacy.