This article examines the job satisfaction of 297 direct care workers in relation to residents' levels of functioning and treatment progress in twenty-two wards of three long-term psychiatric institutions. Employees' satisfaction with work was significantly associated with residents' progress in community adjustment potential, but not with residents' change in pathology or behavior on the ward.
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Buffum et al. (1982) studied this question.