Marital State and Job Satisfaction in Female Office Workers.

Lee, Kyung Jae; Kim, Joo Ja

doi:2008.30.2.198

Epidemiol Health > Volume 30(2); 2008 > Article

Original Article

Epidemiology and Health 2008;30(2): 198-205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4178/kje.2008.30.2.198 Published online Dec 31, 2008.

Marital State and Job Satisfaction in Female Office Workers.

Kyung Jae Lee, Joo Ja Kim

¹Department of Occupational Medicine, SoonchunhyangUniversity Hospital, Korea. leekj@sch.ac.kr
²Department of Occupational Medicine, SoonchunhyangUniversity College of Medicine, Korea.

Received: Oct 8, 2008 Accepted after revision: Dec 18, 2008

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:
We wanted to investigate the marital state and job satisfaction of female office workers.
METHODS:
The data was analyzed from a cross-sectional survey of 995 female office workers. Information was obtained about the job satisfaction, sociodemographics, health behaviors, and job-related characteristics. Multiple regression analysis was used to test for the related factors of job satisfaction by marital state among female office workers.
RESULTS:
The mean score of individual items on job satisfaction was significantly higher in married than in unmarried women(p=0.014). Job satisfaction was associated with stress, employment type in unmarried women, whereas it was related with employment type in married women on a multiple regression analysis (p<0.001; p=0.006; p=0.026, respectively).
CONCLUSIONS:
Our findings suggest that job satisfaction is significantly higher in married than in unmarried women and it may be affected by job-related factor like employment type. Further research is needed to establish proper strategies for improving job satisfaction of female office workers.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; Marital state; Female office workers