The effects of job satisfaction and psychological resilience on job performance among residents of the standardized residency training: a nationwide study in China

ABSTRACT

High resident job performance is essential for effective medical professionalism. To date, few studies have investigated the potential predictors of job performance among residents in standardized residency training (SRT) program in China. Therefore, a nationwide survey among Chinese residents in SRT program was conducted to evaluate the impact of job satisfaction and psychological resilience on job performance. A total of 1146 residents from 9 hospitals were recruited in this study. Demographic and work-related information, job satisfaction, psychological resilience and job performance were collected through questionnaires. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that, “work pressure”, “doctor-patient conflict”, “intrinsic job satisfaction” and “psychological resilience” were significant predictors of job performance for residents in SRT programs and explained 61.3% of variance, while the three dimensions of psychological resilience (tenacity, strength and optimism) accounted for 27.2% of variance. The area under curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve showed that resilience had the highest predictive accuracy than another three subscales. This study indicated that intrinsic job satisfaction and psychological resilience had a significant influence on job performance. Strategies and measures to improve residents’ intrinsic job satisfaction and psychological resilience may be efficacious ways to enhance their job performance.

KEYWORDS:

• Job satisfaction
• resilience
• job performance
• residents
• standardized residency training

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the study participants for their cooperation and voluntary participation. All subjects were given informed consent. All participation was voluntary.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Outstanding Clinical Discipline Project of Shanghai Pudong under Grant No: PWYgy2018-10 and Shanghai Municipal Key Clinical Specialty (2018): Priority of Shanghai key discipline of medicine (2017ZZ02020).