Parichat Tantiwat.  1995.  A Study of individual factors  and Job
Satisfaction as Relating to Intention to Leave Nursing Service in
Bangkok at Medical Department, the Ministry of Public Health. 
Dissertation, M.S (Behavioral Science) Behavioral Sience Research
Institute. 


               The purpoe of this study was fourfold: 1) to compare
intention to leave nursing service according to bio-social characteristics or
job satisfaction 2) to examine the interaction between bio-social
characteristecs and job satisfaction 3)  to examine the relationship between
job satisfaction and intention to leave 4) to search for factors which could
predict intention to 
leave. 
                In this field study, the sample consised of 450  nurses
working in Bangkok at Medical Department, the Ministry of Public Health.
The questionnaire consisted of 3 parts The first part was about bio-social
characteristics. The second part was to measure job satisfaction. The third
part was to measure intention to leave. The statistics used in analyzing these
data were one-way and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), t-test,
correlation coefficient, multiple regression analysis. 
                The major findings conld be summarized as
follows: 
                1.  Nurses aged under forty with a bachelor degree or above with
less than ten year work experience and low job satisfaction had a
significantly higher intention to leave at .05 level than those over forty
years old with less than a bachelor degree and more than ten year work
experience together with higher job satisfaction. 
                2.  There was no interaction between bio-social characteristics
and job satisfaction in intention to leave. 
                3.  Job satisfaction was found to be negatively correlated with
intention to leave 
(r= -.46) it was statistically significant at .05. 
                4.  Six important predictors of intention to leave were found to be
job advancement, type of work, age, working condition, salary and
benefits, and security. All variables accounted for 37.3% of the variance
which was statistically significant at .05. 
                In conclusion, the findings indicated that bio-social characteristics
and job satisfaction were important predictors for intention to leave nursing
service in Bangkok at Medical Department, the Mininstry of Public Health. 

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