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

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This research examined the relationship between job satisfaction and mental health among employees of an oil refinery in Iran. It was hypothesized that global job satisfaction and its five components: satisfaction with work, co-workers, pay, promotion, and supervision have 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 JDI and the SCL-90-R were used to measure overall job satisfaction and its five components, and the nine mental disorders, respectively. The sample consisted of 828 subjects selected by a multiphase random method; 665 were regular employees and 163 were managers at different levels. Results indicated that global job satisfaction and its five components have negative correlations with the nine mental disorders at P<0.01 level of significance. These correlation coefficients have a range from -0.10 to -0.36 for regular employees and from -0.12 to -0.35 for managers. Only 8 correlation coefficients out of 108 did not reach statistical significance at P<0.05 level. The multiple correlation coefficients of the five job satisfaction facets and the nine mental disorders have a range from 0.17 to 0.38 for regular employees and from 0.34 to 0.45 for managers. All these multiple correlation coefficients were significant at P<0.01.

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