Effects of Leisure Obstacles, Job Satisfaction, and Physical and Mental Health on Job Intentions of Medical Workers Exposed to COVID-19 Infection Risk and Workplace Stress.

Hsiao-Hsien Lin,Chao-Chien Chen,Tzu-Yun Lin,Jan-Wei Lin,Bing-Sen Lai,Chin-Hsien Hsu

doi:10.3390/healthcare9111569

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of leisure obstacles, job satisfaction, physical and mental health, and work intentions of medical workers in Taiwan. SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0 statistical software were used to analyze 208 questionnaires by basic statistical tests, t-tests, and structural model analysis. Results: Under the epidemic, medical workers were unable to develop job identity due to low promotion opportunities and low job achievement. The lack of recreational exercise skills, time, and information created leisure obstacles. In addition, they were unable to express their true selves freely at work, which led to health problems such as reduced enthusiasm, mental weakness, and emotional irritability. In particular, female medical workers felt more strongly about the issues of leisure obstacles and the intention to stay in their jobs. The study found that the higher their job satisfaction, the higher their intention to stay in the job, while the more pronounced the leisure obstacles and physical and mental health problems, the more pronounced their intention to leave.

Highlights

The medical workers’ perceptions of leisure obstacles, job satisfaction, physical and mental health, and willingness to stay in the workforce were statistically analyzed using the Arithmetic mean and t-test methods, and hypotheses 1–4 were tested
The convergent validity of this study was examined for the components of leisure obstacles, job satisfaction, physical and mental health, and willingness to stay in the workforce, and the negative factor loadings for all components were between 0.68 and 0.91, with C.R. values between 0.89 and 0.96 and average variance extracted (AVE)
Structural model analysis was used to examine the perceptions of leisure obstacles, job satisfaction, physical and mental health, and willingness to stay in the workforce, and to test hypotheses 5–7

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Introduction

Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Taiwan had achieved good results in epidemic prevention [3], but the government’s overconfidence led to misjudgment of the situation and poor epidemic prevention decisions, resulting in a major invasion by the mutated virus starting on 13 May 2021 [4]. Taiwan has not yet implemented universal screening and is caught in a vaccine shortage, with a national vaccination rate of only 3.4% and a Level 3 alert status for the fourth week [5]. The total number of confirmed cases in Taiwan has rapidly accumulated to 12,746, of which 34.8% are young adults and

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