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The Effect of Sex Role Attitudes and Personal Characteristics on Job Satisfaction and Labor Force Turnover among Women: A Longitudinal Study Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University, 1985 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Family Influences; Job Satisfaction; Job Turnover; Variables, Independent - Covariate The effect on labor force turnover of a number of personal and family variables is the focus of this research. Job turnover is the primary dependent variable with job satisfaction treated at times as dependent and at other times as independent. The major independent variables are family income, the presence of children in the home, education, age, race, marital status and the attitudes of working women and their husbands toward the acceptability of work for women. A review of past research into job turnover and satisfaction reveals an emphasis on characteristics of the work place as well as on samples primarily composed of male respondents. This research shifts the view to factors which are apart from the job and which in the past have been used to explain women's absence from the labor force. Instead, these factors are examined to see what influence they may have on job turnover and satisfaction. The data are from the NLS Mature Women's cohort. The study focuses on approximately 2,000 women who reported they worked at both the 1967 and 1972 interview points. The remainder of the cohort includes women who worked at neither time or only at one other time point. The analysis is in two steps. First, two- and three-way comparisons are made among the variables and chi square tests are done to determine if relationships exist. Significant association at the .001 level is found between turnover and satisfaction, family income, age and education, and strong relations emerge with other independent variables. Second, logistic regression analyses are done on two groups of variables. In the first, five independent variables and turnover, as the dependent, are examined. A model is fitted with three main effects and two two-way interactions. In the second logistic regression analysis, satisfaction is treated as dependent and four independent variables are included in the examination. Both methods of analysis indicate relationships between turnover and satisfaction, income and the presence of children in the home. |
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Tremayne, Pamela L. The Effect of Sex Role Attitudes and Personal Characteristics on Job Satisfaction and Labor Force Turnover among Women: A Longitudinal Study. Ph.D. Dissertation, Emory University, 1985. |