If workers choose between permanent and flexible contracts, utility should equalize. Estimates of job satisfaction using the British Household Panel Survey reveal the critical role played by unmeasured worker heterogeneity. Accounting for such heterogeneity, shows that flexible contracts are a strong negative determinant of satisfaction with job security but are often a positive determinant of ...

BACKGROUND The objectives of the present study were (1) to track work-life conflict in Switzerland during the years 2002 to 2008 and (2) to analyse the relationship between work-life conflict and health satisfaction, examining whether long-term work-life conflict leads to poor health satisfaction. METHODS The study is based on a representative longitudinal database (Swiss Household Panel), co...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the quality of life, life satisfaction, happiness and demands of work in workers with different work schedules. METHODS The survey was carried out on professional workers in social care. Some were shiftworkers whose schedule included night shifts (N=311), some were shiftworkers without night shifts (N=207) and some were non-shiftworkers (N=1,210). Surveys were mailed ...

Background: Job satisfaction is a means of contributing to overall life satisfaction and employees’ mental health. This study aimed to assess the level of job satisfaction and to determine the association between job satisfaction and psychiatric morbidity. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was a web-based survey conducted among 187 resident doctors in four selected teaching hospita...

Title of dissertation: LONGITUDINAL PREDICTION OF DOMAIN SATISFACTION AND GLOBAL LIFE SATISFACTION: TEST OF A SOCIAL COGNITIVE MODEL Daniel Browne Singley, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Robert Lent Counseling and Personnel Services The experience of life satisfaction has been studied at a global level and in specific domains of life such as work, marriage, and a...

Abstract Previous research has shown that knowledge of the rights child and their perceptions about own participation may contribute to children’s subjective well-being (SWB), satisfaction with how adults listen children take what they say into account is highly related SWB in many countries. Thus, aims this article are: (a) exploring contribution several items different contexts lives; (b) ana...

Longitudinal data spanning 22 years, obtained from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; N = 1,637; 70- to 100-year-olds), were used to examine if and how life satisfaction exhibits terminal decline at the end of life. Changes in life satisfaction were more strongly associated with distance to death than with distance from birth (chronological age). Multiphase gr...