| Abstract: | The objective of this research is to explore the relationships among leisure participation, work performance, and job satisfaction for police staffs of Nantou County Police Bureau. This research adopted questionnaire survey methodology using proportional apportionment and judgment sampling to sample the data from the police staffs. First, eight individual variables are set as independent variables, and leisure participation, work performance, and job satisfaction are set as dependent variables to investigate the differences and correlations among those variables. Moreover, leisure participation and work performance are set as independent variables, and job satisfaction is set as dependent variable to investigate the relationship of impact.
In this research, 500 questionnaires are distributed, and 479 answered questionnaires are returned, with 95.8% response rate. Since there are 78 invalid questionnaires, there are total 401 valid questionnaires adopted by this research, with 83.7% valid response rate. Besides, the statistical analysis methods, such as descriptive analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, T-test for independent samples, One-Way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, multiple regression analysis are applied to analyze 401 valid questionnaires. The findings of this research are as following: For individual variables in leisure participation, there are significant differences on age, year of service, education, job position, and work characteristic. Also, for individual variables in work performance, there are significant differences on marriage status, age, year of service, and the level of service department. Furthermore, for individual variables in job satisfaction, there are significant differences on age and the level of service department. In the correlation analysis, there is significant correlation for any pair among leisure participation, work performance and job satisfaction. Moreover, in regression analysis, there is significant impact on job satisfaction caused by leisure participation and work performance.
In conclusion, there are some research findings and suggestions provided to related police departments, police staffs and future researchers as references for management and applications. |
