Results
Correlations were performed (refer to appendix 1 and 2) and it was found that income and education were significantly correlated as the countrywide data had a significance value of .003, r = .637, p < .005 and the statewide data had a remarkable significance value of .000, r = .770, p < .005. Despite these very strong correlations, no significant results were found for any of the other variables and more importantly that support the predicted relationship between job engagement, education and job satisfaction. However, no relationship was predicted between income and job satisfaction so this prediction is supported by the data.
To further investigate the relationship between the variables regressions were conducted (refer to
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However, when job engagement was accounted for both the variables become more insignificant.
The graph of the worldwide data (refer to Figure 1) highlights that as job satisfaction increases, so to does income roughly, however, the data does deviate from this pattern slightly for some of the countries. Job engagement also appears to follow a similar pattern, with less satisfied countries having less job engagement, however, as engagement increases there seems to be less variation between countries. Education does not seem to have any strong effects displayed in the graph as the data falls and rises throughout the graph.
The relationship between the variables is less pronounced for the US (refer to Figure 2) as there does not seem to be a strong relationship between any of the variables. Income and education follow a similar trend to the countrywide data, both slightly increasing with job satisfaction. Job engagement surprisingly appears to be decreasing with satisfaction for the US data as the values get slightly lower. Job engagement and education also appear to interact, eventually converging to a similar point.
Discussion
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