Determinants of Personal Support Workers’ Intention to Stay in Community Care Organizations
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Abstract
This study tests the impact of work intensification on work stress, job satisfaction, and intention to stay focusing on personal support workers. Work stress and job satisfaction are the mediating variables and intention to stay is the endogenous variable. Data come from our 2015 survey of 999 personal support workers, the largest occupational group in home and community care, employed in Ontario, Canada. Using structural equation modeling, we find that work intensification is significantly and positively related to work stress, and work stress has a significant negative association with extrinsic job satisfaction and intrinsic job satisfaction. Moreover, while intrinsic job satisfaction is positively associated with intention to stay, there is no significant relationship between extrinsic job satisfaction and intention to stay. Our findings explain the mechanism between work intensification and intention to stay and demonstrate that the impact of extrinsic job satisfaction and intrinsic job satisfaction on intention to stay might differ. The practical implications of the results as they are related to the 2018 conference theme, “Improving Lives,” are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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