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. 2022 Jun 7;12(6):e059032.
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059032.

Relationships among thriving at work, organisational commitment and job satisfaction among Chinese front-line primary public health workers during COVID-19 pandemic: a structural equation model analysis

Mo Yi  1 , Di Jiang  2 , Jingjing Wang  1 , Zeyi Zhang  1 , Yuanmin Jia  1 , Baosheng Zhao  1 , Lei Guo  3   4 , Ou Chen  5
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Relationships among thriving at work, organisational commitment and job satisfaction among Chinese front-line primary public health workers during COVID-19 pandemic: a structural equation model analysis

Mo Yi et al. BMJ Open. .

Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to explore the mediating effect and influence mechanism of organisational commitment on the association among thriving at work and job satisfaction among frontline primary public health workers (PHWs) in China during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: This study is a cross-sectional written survey.

Setting: We included 20 primary care units in northern provinces of China.

Participants: A total of 601 PHWs who worked in primary organisations and against COVID-19 on the front line were included.

Methods: We collected the data from the participants' written questionnaire (Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, thriving at work scale and organisational commitment scale), and programmed AMOS V.26.0 to develop a structural equation model (SEM) based on the relationships among the three variables.

Results: The thriving at work scores of the primary PHWs were (M=3.17, SD=0.65), and job satisfaction was (M=3.05, SD=0.69); the scores of their thriving at work, organisational commitment and job satisfaction were all significantly correlated (p<0.01); and the SEM indicated that organisational commitment had a significant partial mediating effect between thriving at work and job satisfaction. The overall effect value was 0.867, and the mediated effect value was 0.422, accounting for 48.7% of the total effect size.

Conclusion: The thriving at work and job satisfaction scores of primary PHWs in China are moderate, and thriving at work not only affects job satisfaction directly, but also indirectly through organisational commitment. This study suggests that health policy-makers should promote job satisfaction among PHWs through relative inventions aiming to improve their thriving at work and organisational commitment.

Keywords: COVID-19; health & safety; human resource management; public health.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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Structural equation model of primary PHWs’ thriving at work, organisational commitment and job satisfaction. AC, affective commitment; CC, continuance commitment; ES, external satisfaction; IS, internal satisfaction; NC, normative commitment; PHWs, public health workers.
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