ABSTRACT

The bulk of correctional staff life satisfaction research has focused on staff in Western nations, particularly the United States. The current study examined how workplace variables are related to life satisfaction among Nigerian correctional staff, and it used the Job Demands-Resources Model as a theoretical framework. This model postulates that workplace variables can be broken into job demands and resources. Job demands are workplace variables that cause strain. Job resources are workplace variables that help staff be productive and successful and help buffer job demands. Job demands tend to be associated with negative outcomes, such as job stress, and job resources tend to be associated to positive outcomes, such as life satisfaction. Data for this study came from staff at a prison located in southeast Nigeria. The job demand variables examined were role overload and fear of victimization at work, and the job resource variables were quality of training, job autonomy, and job variety, with the outcome variable being life satisfaction. In a multivariate Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis, fear of victimization had a nonsignificant relationship with life satisfaction, role overload had a negative relationship, and quality training, job autonomy, and job variety each had a positive associations.

摘要

大部分惩教人员生活满意度研究都集中在西方国家的工作人员身上，尤其是美国。目前的研究考察了工作场所变量如何与尼日利亚惩教人员的生活满意度相关，并使用工作需求-资源模型作为理论框架。该模型假设工作场所变量可以分解为工作需求和资源。工作需求是导致压力的工作场所变量。工作资源是工作场所的变量，可帮助员工提高工作效率和成功，并有助于缓冲工作需求。工作要求往往与负面结果相关，例如工作压力，而工作资源往往与正面结果相关，例如生活满意度。这项研究的数据来自尼日利亚东南部一所监狱的工作人员。检查的工作需求变量是角色超负荷和对工作中受害的恐惧，工作资源变量是培训质量、工作自主权和工作多样性，结果变量是生活满意度。在多元普通最小二乘回归分析中，对受害的恐惧与生活满意度无关，角色超负荷为负相关，而素质培训、工作自主性和工作多样性均呈正相关。