Abstract
Background: Global countries are suffering from a shortage of health professionals, turnover intention is closely related to job satisfaction and burnout, making good use of these relationship could alleviate the crises.
Methods: This research was conducted in Huangpi, China. Convenience sampling methods and self-designed questionnaires was used. 1370 of valid samples were collected with 97.72% effective rate. Descriptive analyses were conducted to describe social demographic factors. The structural equation model (SEM) was performed to adjust model fitting, and the mediation effect test was carried out by using the bootstrap method. Sobel-Z test was used to verify the significance of mediation effect.
Results: The mean age was 36.98 (SD=9.84). The fitting indices of hypothetical model is not good. After the adjustments, for job satisfaction, turnover intention and burnout, the Cronbach’s is 0.976, 0.910, 0.879, respectively. 2/df =5.590, GFI=0.932, AGFI=0.901, CFI=0.977, NFI=0.973, IFI=0.977, TLI=0.970, RESEA=0.058. The revised model fitted well, and the SEM was put up by using the bootstrap method. The mediating effect is partial, and Soble-Z test indicates that the mediation effect is significant. Burnout is negatively correlated with job satisfaction (p<0.01) and the standardized path coefficient is -0.41. Job satisfaction is also negatively correlated with turnover intention (p<0.01) and the standardized path coefficient is -0.18. Burnout is positively correlated with turnover intention (p<0.01) and the standardized path coefficient is 0.83.
Conclusions: Job satisfaction is a mediating variable that affects the relationship between burnout and turnover intention. Turnover intention was negatively related to job satisfaction and positively related to burnout, job satisfaction was negative related to burnout. And the mediation effect has a low impact of 7.4%.
Keywords: Turnover Intention, Burnout, Job satisfaction, Workers in primary care institution, Structural equation model