The Relationship between subjective-well-being and job satisfaction of Health insurance organization staff in Tehran

Soheila Bakhshi, Hooshang Jadidi, Taher Tizdast

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Job satisfaction plays an important role in human behavior and resources management studies and may have a great effect on labor efficiency. Subjective-well-being is one of the factors affecting on job satisfaction. Subjective well-being is the consent of the person of their quality of life, based on criteria selected by their. The present study examined the relationship between subjective well-being and job satisfaction. In the present study, 114 employees of Health insurance organization were analyzed by job satisfaction questionnaires and subjective well-being questionnaires. This descriptive study was a correlational study and the data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and stepwise regression. The results showed that a strong relationship between subjective well-being and job satisfaction (0.639). It also includes the following components of subjective well-being: emotional (0.404), psychological (0.46) and social well-being (0.557) that shows a significant relationship. It can be concluded that subjective-well-being can be a predictive variable in job satisfaction. The predictability of subjective-well-being components is respectively social Well-being, psychological well-being and emotional well-being.

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