A Happy Life: Exploring How Job Stress, Job Involvement, and Job Satisfaction Are Related to the Life Satisfaction of Chinese Prison Staff

Abstract

Working in prisons is a demanding career. While a growing number of studies have explored the predictors of job stress, job involvement, and job satisfaction, very few studies have examined how job stress, job involvement, and job satisfaction effect prison staff life satisfaction. Moreover, past studies on prison staff life satisfaction have all been conducted among those working in the United States. The current study examined how job stress, job involvement and job satisfaction were associated with satisfaction with life among surveyed staff at two Chinese prisons. Job involvement and job satisfaction had positive effects on life satisfaction, while job stress had a negative effect.

Key words:

• China
• Chinese prison staff
• life satisfaction
• job stress
• job involvement
• job satisfaction

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the reviewers for their comments and suggestions. The authors also thank Janet Lambert for proofreading the manuscript.

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Declaration of conflicts of interest

Eric Lambert has declared no conflicts of interest

Shanhe Jiang has declared no conflicts of interest

Jianhong Liu has declared no conflicts of interest

Jinwu Zhang has declared no conflicts of interest

Eunsuhk Choi has declared no conflicts of interest

Ethical approval

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study