TY - JOUR
T1 - Succumbing to the COVID-19 Pandemic—Healthcare Workers Not Satisfied and Intend to Leave Their Jobs
AU - Zhang, Stephen X.
AU - Chen, Jiyao
AU - Jahanshahi, Asghar Afshar
AU - Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
AU - Dai, Huiyang
AU - Li, Jizhen
AU - Patty-Tito, Ross Mary
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the MOE Project of Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities (16JJD630005).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/1/7
Y1 - 2021/1/7
N2 - Healthcare workers are under such a tremendous amount of pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic that many have become concerned about their jobs and even intend to leave them. It is paramount for healthcare workers to feel satisfied with their jobs and lives during a pandemic. This study aims to examine the predictors of job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 10 and 30 April 2020, 240 healthcare workers in Bolivia completed a cross-sectional online survey, which assessed their job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed that their number of office days predicted job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention, but the relationships varied by their age. For example, healthcare workers’ office days negatively predicted job satisfaction for the young (e.g., at 25 years old: b = − 0.21; 95% CI: − 0.36 to − 0.60) but positively predicted job satisfaction for the old (e.g., at 65 years old: b = 0.25; 95% CI: 0.06 to 0.44). These findings provide evidence to enable healthcare organizations to identify staff concerned about job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention to enable early actions so that these staffs can remain motivated to fight the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - Healthcare workers are under such a tremendous amount of pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic that many have become concerned about their jobs and even intend to leave them. It is paramount for healthcare workers to feel satisfied with their jobs and lives during a pandemic. This study aims to examine the predictors of job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 10 and 30 April 2020, 240 healthcare workers in Bolivia completed a cross-sectional online survey, which assessed their job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed that their number of office days predicted job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention, but the relationships varied by their age. For example, healthcare workers’ office days negatively predicted job satisfaction for the young (e.g., at 25 years old: b = − 0.21; 95% CI: − 0.36 to − 0.60) but positively predicted job satisfaction for the old (e.g., at 65 years old: b = 0.25; 95% CI: 0.06 to 0.44). These findings provide evidence to enable healthcare organizations to identify staff concerned about job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and turnover intention to enable early actions so that these staffs can remain motivated to fight the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Health personnel
KW - Job satisfaction
KW - Personal de salud
KW - Satisfacción en el trabajo
KW - COVID-19
KW - Health personnel
KW - Job satisfaction
KW - Personal de salud
KW - Satisfacción en el trabajo
KW - Coronavirus
KW - Occupational well-being
KW - 2019-nCoV
KW - Risk factors
KW - Latin America
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/12412
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/a2d8cd43-58d3-3a9b-981b-bf0331bcc461/
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/45b3ff1d-7627-3f48-b964-d8468ed23235/
U2 - 10.1007/s11469-020-00418-6
DO - 10.1007/s11469-020-00418-6
M3 - Artículo (Contribución a Revista)
AN - SCOPUS:85099027747
SN - 1557-1874
VL - 20
SP - 2115
JO - International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
JF - International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
IS - 4
ER -