Table 2.

Score and exploratory factor analysis results for the job satisfaction scale (n = 433)

Items	Score ($\overline{\mathit{x}}\mathit{\pm }\mathit{\delta }$)	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	Communalities
Your immediate boss	5.38 ± 1.38	0.819				0.839
Industrial relationship between management and workers in your firm	5.03 ± 1.31	0.704				0.828
The attention paid to suggestions you make	4.60 ± 1.30	0.659				0.805
The way your firm is managed	4.69 ± 1.40	0.637				0.748
The amount of responsibility you are given	4.86 ± 1.33	0.635				0.746
Your chance of promotion	4.22 ± 1.54		0.830			0.821
Your rate of pay	3.61 ± 1.66		0.790			0.774
Your opportunity to use your abilities	4.56 ± 1.35		0.624			0.749
Your hours of work	4.46 ± 1.44		0.555			0.725
The freedom to choose your own method of working	4.38 ± 1.46			0.724		0.798
Your job safety	4.88 ± 1.32			0.643		0.788
The amount of variety in your job	4.45 ± 1.33			0.634		0.805
The physical working conditions	4.40 ± 1.44			0.571		0.798
Your fellow workers	5.12 ± 1.25				0.716	0.822
The recognition you get for good work	4.82 ± 1.25				0.681	0.813
Relationship with patients	5.09 ± 1.19				0.550	0.732
Now, taking everything into consideration, how do you feel about your job as a whole?	4.89 ± 1.29
Eigenvalue		9.998	1.162	0.779	0.652
Cumulative variance explained by factors (%)		0.625	0.698	0.746	0.787