Job Satisfaction among Lay, Clergy and Religious Order Workers for the Catholic Church: A Preliminary Investigation
In the extensive literature on job satisfaction, comparatively few researchers have focused on professional church employment. The studies which do exist have concentrated largely on ordained clergy rather than on non-ordained workers. The present study analyzes a survey of priests, members of women...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1993
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Review of religious research
Year: 1993, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-33 |
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| Summary: | In the extensive literature on job satisfaction, comparatively few researchers have focused on professional church employment. The studies which do exist have concentrated largely on ordained clergy rather than on non-ordained workers. The present study analyzes a survey of priests, members of women's religious orders and lay men and women who work for the Catholic Church. Priests were found to display more satisfaction than the lay respondents. The women in religious orders displayed satisfaction levels equal to the priests' on some questions, but on other questions, their satisfaction ranked with, or even less than, the lay respondents'. The paper outlines some of these differences in detail, and suggests some tentative hypotheses for their causes. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511058 |