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Published online May 14, 2012
American Journal of Audiology 2012; doi:10.1044/1059-0889(2012/12-0005)

American Journal of Audiology 2012;21:140.

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AUDIOLOGISTS' PROFESSIONAL SATISFACTION

Patricia Saccone

VA Medical Center, West Palm Beach FL

James Steiger

Northeast Ohio Au.D. Consortium, Akron OH

Purpose: Currently practicing audiologists were surveyed to evaluate their professional satisfaction and for comparison to audiologists surveyed in 1997.

Method: We repeated an audiologist professional satisfaction survey conducted in 1997; 382 randomly chosen, currently practicing audiologists participated. Responses to 38 statements were on a 5 point Likert scale where 5 indicated strong agreement with a statement and 1 indicated strong disagreement with a statement. The respondent sample was broken down into demographic subgroups and statements were divided into subgroups reflecting six core reward areas that contribute to overall professional satisfaction.

Results: Group mean satisfaction was 3.9 (n = 382; SD 1.01), unchanged since 1997 (p < .05). Private practice audiologists' group mean satisfaction of 4.31 (n = 80, SD = 0.78) was higher than for other practice settings (p < .05). AuD private practice owners' group mean satisfaction of 4.52 (n = 46, SD = .66) was higher than for other degrees and practice settings (p < .05). Core reward area ratings differed for AuD, MA/MS and PhD degree holders (p < .05). Correlations between the average core reward area ratings and group mean satisfaction met statistical significance (p < .05).

Conclusions: Our results have implications for goal setting and planning within the profession and for audiologist's career choices.


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