The purpose of this study is to investigate how certain factors-especially dietitians` general characteristics and job burnout-influence their job satisfaction and turnover intention. The survey was conducted during the period from September 7th to Oc...
The purpose of this study is to investigate how certain factors-especially dietitians` general characteristics and job burnout-influence their job satisfaction and turnover intention. The survey was conducted during the period from September 7th to October 15th of 2006. A total of 91 institutions (response rate 74.6%) was analyzed by using SPSS (windows ver. 14.0). A majority of the respondents were females (97.8%) and 30 years or older (66.0%). Among the job burnout dimensions, exhaustion (2.78±0.07) was rated higher than cynicism (2.62±0.06), while the professional efficacy level (3.55±0.05) was relatively high. The dietitians were more satisfied with co-workers (3.73±0.07) and work (3.41±0.06) than with pay (2.66±0.07) and promotion (2.32±0.07). The work dimension of job satisfaction was negatively correlated with exhaustion and cynicism dimensions of job burnout, and turnover intention (p<0.001), but positively correlated with professional efficacy dimension (p<0.001). The supervision dimension was negatively correlated with cynicism (p<0.05) and turnover intention (p<0.001), but positively correlated with professional efficacy dimension (p<0.01). The co-workers dimension was positively correlated with professional efficacy dimension (p<0.01). The pay dimension was negatively correlated with exhaustion (p<0.001) and cynicism (p<0.01) dimensions and turnover intention (p<0.001). The promotion dimension was negatively correlated with cynicism (p<0.01). The turnover intention was positively correlated with exhaustion and cynicism dimensions of job burnout (p<0.001). A hierarchical regression analysis revealed that i) professional efficacy was a factor to significantly increase job satisfaction, ii) cynicism to significantly decrease their job satisfaction, and iii) exhaustion to significantly increase turnover intention. (Korean J Community Nutrition 14(2):182~189, 2009)