BACKGROUND 'Continuity of personal care by anaesthetist', as defined by a single anaesthetist providing preoperative evaluation, performing anaesthesia, and delivering a postoperative visit to the patient, has been shown to be a major factor for patient satisfaction with anaesthesia care. This prospective randomized study investigated whether a single postoperative visit increased the patient's...

This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study. The determinants of interest include actual pay, relative pay, hours of work, job autonomy and several personal characteristics. We also investigate the determinants of satisfaction with pay conditional on a worker's satisfaction with other domains of job satisfaction, such ...

OBJECTIVE Determining personal satisfaction as the main component of the quality of life of men and women aged 20 to 64 in Medellin during 2005. METHODS This was a cross/sectional descriptive population study. Its primary source of information consisted of two samples (659 men and 683 women) representing 523,705 and 651,704 people respectively, according to population expansion factors, selec...

The current research investigates the predictors of job satisfaction and motivation in banking industry of Pakistan. Data were collected from the 200 bankers of Middle and Upper management Level by using cross Sessional method, and randomly selected from 6 banks, which includes, Habib Bank Limited( HBL), Allied bank Limited (ABL), MCB Bank Limited (MCB), United Bank Limited(UBL), Bank Alfalah a...

The positive characteristics that can help people juggle their work and personal roles and experience greater job satisfaction are attracting increased research attention. This study presents a conceptual model to account for the association between employees' positive orientation (i.e., the tendency to evaluate self, life, and the future in a positive way) and their job satisfaction (N = 108)....

Special physical education is considered a challenging process concerned with the development of and mental health students disabilities. teachers face pressures from society, parents, schools, themselves, which can easily lead to burnout increase levels teacher attrition. In our paper, we explore significant effects role job stress (divided into ambiguity conflict, stressors responses, respect...

Background and aim: Postpartum period is often associated with decreased marital satisfaction in couples. The present study aimed to investigate factors contributing to marital satisfaction in primiparous women during postpartum period. Methods: This correlational study was performed on 104 primiparous women who referred to health care centers, Mashhad, Iran in 2013, 8 weeks after delivery, to ...

In this review of the theoretical and empirical work on patient satisfaction with care, the most consistent finding is that the characteristics of providers or organizations that result in more "personal" care are associated with higher levels of satisfaction. Some studies suggest that more personal care will result in better communication and more patient involvement, and hence better quality ...

The present research intended to study the motivation in couples along the life cycle and its relation to happiness and satisfaction. 185 heterosexual couples, separated into seven groups, participated in this study. Motivation was assessed using MS Motivation Scale (Rempel, Holmes, & Zanna, 1985; Portuguese version by Abreu-Afonso & Leal, 2009), a Unique Index Scale for Assessment of Marital G...

Despite previous research findings that suggest that same-sex couples often experience unique stressors within their relationships, other findings indicate that same-sex couples demonstrate similar levels of relationship satisfaction as compared with heterosexual couples. The study described in this article was conducted to examine the extent to which various personal, relationship, and context...