Table 5.

Associations of individual characteristics and satisfaction of aspects of work of GPs on overall job satisfaction (results of stepwise linear regression analysis, under specification of standardized beta coefficient, α = 5%)

	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7	Step 8	Step 9
Opportunity to use abilities	0.638	0.472	0.398	0.273	0.175	0.119	0.107	0.080	0.070
Hours of work		0.373	0.332	0.295	0.279	0.244	0.176	0.170	0.161
Colleagues and fellow workers			0.296	0.272	0.242	0.234	0.222	0.198	0.185
Freedom of working method				0.272	0.235	0.232	0.215	0.212	0.201
Amount of variety on job					0.220	0.229	0.230	0.215	0.204
Income						0.155	0.158	0.142	0.137
Physical working condition							0.137	0.136	0.129
Recognition for work								0.107	0.092
Amount of responsibility									0.085
Pseudo R2	0.406	0.517	0.595	0.645	0.672	0.689	0.700	0.707	0.711

Only coefficients with statistically significances at the p < 0.05 level were reported.

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