To measure people s attitudes toward their work, I chose three dependent variables that correlate with work life and work feelings.
Most people are very satisfied with their jobs.
Most people agree, although most don t strongly agree, that they matter to the organization. My independent variables measure the highest educational degree a person earned, the number of hours they work in a week, their annual income, whether or not they re a member of a union, their sex, and what region of the country they live in. I also looked at job satisfaction over time. It was interesting to see in which years Americans had the highest and lowest levels of job satisfaction.