Table 2.
Job satisfaction of all practice staff for each of the 10 items on the Warr-Cook-Wall (WCW) job satisfaction scale*
| WCW items | Physician (n = 643) Mean (SD) |
Non-physician staff (n = 2634) Mean (SD) |
p-Value# |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Amount of variety in job | 5.70 (1.23) | 5.94 (1.15) | < 0.001 |
| 2. Opportunity to use abilities | 5.37 (1.53) | 5.82 (1.17) | < 0.001 |
| 3. Freedom of working method | 5.66 (1.41) | 5.82 (1.23) | 0.005 |
| 4. Amount of responsibility | 5.64 (1.36) | 5.92 (1.34) | < 0.001 |
| 5. Physical working condition | 5.19 (1.45) | 5.63 (1.25) | < 0.001 |
| 6. Hours of work | 4.43 (1.67) | 5.75 (1.32) | < 0.001 |
| 7. Income | 4.40 (1.60) | 4.79 (1.65) | < 0.001 |
| 8. Recognition for work | 5.57 (1.62) | 5.41 (1.49) | 0.017 |
| 9. Colleagues and fellow workers | 5.99 (1.00) | 6.18 (1.02) | < 0.001 |
| 10. Overall job satisfaction | 5.56 (1.12) | 5.95 (1.05) | < 0.001 |
*Possible score for each item between 1 (extremely dissatisfied) and 7 (extremely satisfied).
#Statistical significance p < 0.05
SD standard deviation