Table 3.
Job satisfaction of full-time practice staff for each of the 10 items on the Warr-Cook-Wall (WCW) job satisfaction scale*
| WCW items | Physician (n = 523) Mean (SD) |
Non-physician staff (n = 743) Mean (SD) |
p-Value# |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Amount of variety in job | 5.66 (1.24) | 5.78 (1.24) | 0.086 |
| 2. Opportunity to use abilities | 5.31 (1.55) | 5.76 (1.19) | < 0.001 |
| 3. Freedom of working method | 5.60 (1.43) | 5.67 (1.32) | 0.331 |
| 4. Amount of responsibility | 5.59 (1.38) | 5.83 (1.24) | 0.001 |
| 5. Physical working condition | 5.09 (1.46) | 5.40 (1.28) | < 0.001 |
| 6. Hours of work | 4.21 (1.63) | 5.44 (1.39) | < 0.001 |
| 7. Income | 4.37 (1.58) | 4.49 (1.70) | 0.172 |
| 8. Recognition for work | 5.52 (1.30) | 5.35 (1.47) | 0.035 |
| 9. Colleagues and fellow workers | 5.99 (1.00) | 6.13 (1.08) | 0.021 |
| 10. Overall job satisfaction | 5.52 (1.11) | 5.80 (1.12) | < 0.001 |
*Possible score for each item between 1 (extremely dissatisfied) and 7 (extremely satisfied).
#Statistical significance p < 0.05
SD standard deviation