Predictors of job satisfaction of licensed social workers: Perceived efficacy as a mediator of the relationship between workload and job satisfaction

Journal of Social Service Research

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Cole, Danny ^a   Panchanadeswaran, Subadra ^a   Daining, Clara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficacy; Job satisfaction; Social workers; Supervision; Workload

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844296712     PISSN: 01488376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J079v31n01_01     Document Type: Review

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