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Mediation role of work motivation and job satisfaction between work-related basic need satisfaction and work
Le Xu1, Zhonghua Wang1, Zhong Li1
1School of Health Policy and Management, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Objectives:
This study aims to examine the association of work-related basic need satisfaction (W-BNS) with doctors' work engagement and explore the mediating role of work motivation and job satisfaction between the two variables.
Design:
This was a cross-sectional study.
Setting:
The study was conducted in four public grade A tertiary hospitals in China.
Participants:
A total of 1000 doctors were invited to participate; 849 doctors completed questionnaires validly.
Primary And Secondary Outcome Measures:
Questionnaires were administered online and offline to collect data, consisting of six parts: social demographic characteristics, work-related characteristics, and scales related to W-BNS, work motivation, job satisfaction and work engagement. One-way analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis were performed using SPSS, and mediation analysis was carried out via PROCESS macro.
Results:
Our research showed that W-BNS, work motivation, job satisfaction and work engagement were positively correlated. Work engagement was significantly predicted by W-BNS (β=0.15, p<0.001) through motivation at work (β=0.23, p<0.001) and job satisfaction (β=0.44, p<0.001), respectively. Compared with work motivation, the mediating effect of job satisfaction was stronger (95% CI -0.22 to -0.06).
Conclusion:
The findings suggest that job satisfaction and work motivation may be important pathways through which doctors' W-BNS may influence their work engagement. In order to maintain and promote doctors' work engagement, hospital administrators should consider strengthening the internal motivation of doctors and improving their job satisfaction.
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