Understanding physicians: Intentions to withdraw from practice: The role of job satisfaction, job stress, mental and physical health

Abstract

Health care organizations may incur high costs due to a stressed, dissatisfied physician workforce. This study proposes and tests a model relating job stress to four intentions to withdraw from practice mediated by job satisfaction and perceptions of physical and mental health. The test used a sample of 1735 physicians and generally supported the model. Given the movement of physicians into increasingly bureaucratic structures, the clinical work environment must be effectively managed.

Citation

Williams, E.S., Konrad, T.R., Scheckler, W.E., Pathman, D.E., Linzer, M., McMurray, J.E., Gerrity, M. and Schwartz, M. (2001), "Understanding physicians: Intentions to withdraw from practice: The role of job satisfaction, job stress, mental and physical health", Advances in Health Care Management (Advances in Health Care Management, Vol. 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 243-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-8231(01)02029-8