The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Mental Health in the Personnel of an Oil Refinery in Iran

This research examined the relationship between job satisfactionand mental health among employees of an oil refinery in iran. it washypothesized that global job satisfaction and its five components:satisfaction with work, co-workers, pay, promotion, and supervisionhave negative correlations with the nine mental disorders: somatization(som), obsessive-compulsive (o-c), interpersonal sensitivity (i-s),depression (dep), anxiety (anx), hostility (hos), phobic anxiety(phob), paranoid ideation (par), and psychoticism (psy). the jdiand the scl-90-r were used to measure overall job satisfaction and itsfive components, and the nine mental disorders, respectively. thesample consisted of 828 subjects selected by a multiphase randommethod; 665 were regular employees and 163 were managers atdifferent levels. results indicated that global job satisfaction and itsfive components have negative correlations with the nine mentaldisorders at p<0.01 level of significance. these correlation coefficientshave a range from -0.10 to -0.36 for regular employees and from -0.12to -0.35 for managers. only 8 correlation coefficients out of 108 did notreach statistical significance at p<0.05 level. the multiple correlationcoefficients of the five job satisfaction facets and the nine mentaldisorders have a range from 0.17 to 0.38 for regular employees andfrom 0.34 to 0.45 for managers. all these multiple correlationcoefficients were significant at p<0.01.