Job Satisfaction, Job Involvement and Life Satisfaction among Nurses in Malaysia

Abstract

The nursing profession can be stressful as nurses have to deal with an extensive number of patients daily. As life satisfaction is essential in determining psychological health and well-being, nurses who lead a joyful life may relate their life experience to their work, specifically in dealing with patients. Both job satisfaction and job involvement, on the other hand, reflect one’s work outcome and personal life. Thus, this study proposed that job satisfaction and job involvement as the factors that determine life satisfaction among nurses. The present study utilized a quantitative approach using a questionnaire survey to collect data. The data were collected from 180 staff nurses Grade U29 in a general hospital in Klang Valley, Malaysia using a purposive sampling method. IBM SPSS Statistic version 23 was used to analyze the data. The findings of the study indicate that there are significant positive relationships between job satisfaction and job involvement with life satisfaction. Specifically, job satisfaction was found to have the highest relationship with life satisfaction, followed by job involvement. This study is significant to the healthcare industry in identifying factors at work that would lead to better life satisfaction among the nurses.