Analysis of selected demographic factors of nurses’ job satisfaction in Slovakia
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https://doi.org/10.12775/MBS.2015.019Keywords
nurses, job satisfaction, demographic factors, institutional healthcare facilitiesAbstract
Nurses´ job satisfaction is an important part of nurses´ lives affecting their productivity and performance, patients´ satisfaction and the quality of nursing care rendered. The aim of the contribution is to present job satisfaction of nurses in institutional healthcare facilities in Slovakia related to the selected demographic factors (age and gender). The research sample was composed of 206 nurses working in institutional healthcare facilities in Slovakia at the age of 23 to 63 years. The nurses´ job satisfaction was surveyed using the standardized form of the McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale that was distributed in electronic form to all nurses in Slovakia. The research was realized in Slovak healthcare facilities from December 2014 to January 2015. Significant interaction of two qualitative variables was evaluated using Mann-Whitney test with ZAdj statistics, Kruskal- Wallis with H test statistics and correlation analysis with Spearmann correlation coefficient r(S). The statistical processing found no statistically significant differences between nurses´ general satisfaction and age (p = 0.994), neither between nurses´ general satisfaction and gender (p = 0.729). The results may be influenced by the unequal representation of men and women in the sample. They demonstrate the need to investigate nurses´ job satisfaction with a focus on the identification of factors determining this multifaceted phenomenon.
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