Table 1.
Scale | Items | Alpha |
Preferred patient category and type of work: | ||
- Chronically ill patients and palliative care | Chronically ill patients | .72 |
Geriatric patients | ||
Palliative care | ||
Long-term contacts with patients | ||
- Acute patients and technology-orientated work | Technical activities | .75 |
Highly specialised work | ||
Availability of personnel and equipment | ||
Emergency care | ||
Acute patients | ||
Preferred work conditions | ||
- Prestige orientation | Income | .70 |
Career opportunities | ||
High status | ||
- Controllable lifestyle | Part-time work | .76 |
Regular working hours | ||
Leisure time | ||
Assessment of work in general practice | ||
- Work intrinsic factors | Variety of patients and disorders | .68 |
Contacts with family of patients | ||
Individual treatments | ||
Variety of work | ||
Collaboration and communication with colleagues | ||
- Work extrinsic factors | High status | .63 |
Income | ||
Career opportunities | ||
- Work conditions | Working hours | .81 |
Work load |
N = 175