Table 3.

Associations between the staff’s perception of the presence of motivator factors in their job and their overall job satisfaction

Motivator factor	Overall job satisfaction
	OR adj (95% CI)
Influence on own work
Hardly at all/not at all	0.13 (0.01, 2.00)
To a minor extent	0.98 (0.43, 2.24)
To some extent	1
To a very large extent	2.84 (1.70, 4.76)**
Opportunity to develop abilities
Hardly at all/not at all	0.05 (0.00, 0.99)**
To a minor extent	0.30 (0.12, 0.75)**
To some extent	1
To a very large extent	4.96 (2.74, 8.99)**
Variation in tasks
To a very small extent
To a small extent	5.59 (0.19, 165.53)
Somewhat	0.82 (0.37, 1.85)
To a large extent	1
To a very large extent	2.81 (1.71, 4.61)**
Responsibility in work
There is too little	0.29 (0.09, 0.90)**
It is appropriate	1
There is too much	0.38 (0.13, 1.14)*

Adjusted for practice type, age, time pressure and occupation.

^* P ≤ 0.10,

^** P ≤ 0.05.