Job Satisfaction and Burnout among Greek Professionals Providing Services for Children with Disabilities

Abstract

According to Locke (27), job satisfaction is ‘a pleasant or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences’ (p.1304). Some of the factors that correlate with job satisfaction are working conditions, productivity, employee’s intent to stay at his/ her job and earnings (43,47). Research has shown that job satisfaction has been linked positively to reward, contact with colleagues, supervision, opportunities for developing new skills, work challenges, etc. (41,44).