Factors Affecting the Job Satisfaction of Caregivers in a Home-Based Elderly Care Program

Xiao Rong, Zhipeng Zhou and Yihui Su
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Xiao Rong: Department of Architecture, Shanghai University, No. 149 Yanchang Road, Shanghai 200072, China
Zhipeng Zhou: Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Yihui Su: Department of Sociology, College of Humanities, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, No. 777 Guoding Road, Shanghai 200433, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 15, 1-16

Abstract: Population aging has increased the demand for elderly care worldwide. The home-based elderly care system plays an important role in meeting this demand in developing countries. The quality of home-based elderly care is associated with the job satisfaction of caregivers in home-based elderly care programs, which has rarely been studied. This paper explores the factors that affect the job satisfaction of these elderly caregivers, including personal characteristics, working conditions, employment status, training, caregiver–client relationships, welfare, work experience, and burnout. It utilizes data from the Shanghai Domestic-work Professionalization Survey (SDPS), which was conducted among four types of in-home caregivers ( n = 1000) in Shanghai over the period from May to September 2021. This paper selected a sample of elderly caregivers ( n = 285) to examine their job satisfaction. The results show that gender, age, marital status, how they earned the job, relation with clients, social insurance, and work experience are significantly associated with the job satisfaction of in-home elderly caregivers, and their job satisfaction is negatively associated with their burnout levels. However, training and working conditions have no significant effect on the job satisfaction of in-home elderly caregivers, which is different from previous studies on formal care workers, such as nurses, in the institutional care system.

Keywords: home-based elderly care; in-home elderly caregiver; job satisfaction; social insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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