Life Satisfaction and Work-Related Satisfaction among Anesthesiologists in Poland
Table 1
Computed statistical parameters (mean, SD, and quartiles) for each averaged scoring referring to patient care, burden, income-prestige, personal rewards, and professional relations and different aspects of life among surveyed anesthesiologists being generally satisfied versus dissatisfieda, b, c.
Investigated “dimensions” of work satisfaction or aspect of life
Job satisfaction in general—declared general satisfaction of work
Job satisfaction in general—declared general dissatisfaction of workb
valuec
Mean
SD
Quartiles
Mean
SD
Quartiles
Patient care
4.78
1.10
4; 5; 5.5
3.69
1.27
2.5; 4; 5
< 0.001
Burden
3.17
1.05
2.25; 3; 4
2.63
0.92
2; 2.5; 3.25
= 0.009
Income-prestige
4.56
0.94
4; 4.5; 5.5
3.69
1.12
3; 3.5; 4.5
< 0.001
Personal rewards
4.83
0.98
4.33; 5; 5.67
3.97
1.19
3; 4; 5
< 0.001
Professional relations
5.40
0.82
5; 5.5; 6
4.86
1.21
4; 5; 6
= 0.024
Material status
5.48
0.86
5; 6; 6
4.79
1.22
4; 5; 6
< 0.001
Health status
5.41
0.94
5; 5; 6
4.49
1.30
4; 5; 5
< 0.001
Predicted future
4.77
1.04
4; 5; 6
4.00
1.08
4; 4; 5
< 0.001
Social life
4.60
1.46
4; 5; 6
3.87
1.94
2; 4; 5
= 0.036
Family life
5.34
1.40
5; 6; 6
5.00
1.59
4; 5; 6
(NSd)
1: extremely dissatisfied; 2: dissatisfied; 3: rather dissatisfied; 4: neither dissatisfied nor satisfied; 5: rather satisfied; 6: satisfied; 7: extremely satisfied.
b“Satisfied anesthesiologists” indicated the score ranging from 5 to 7; “dissatisfied anesthesiologists” chose the score ranging from 1 to 4. The Mann-Whitney test was carried out.
