Gregoriou Ioanna, Economidou Eleftheria C, Avraam Demetris, Soteriades Elpidoforos S, Papastavrou Evridiki, Charalambous Andreas, Stylianides Antonis, Merkouris Anastasios
Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology, 30 Archbishop Kyprianos Street, Limassol, 3036, Cyprus.
Department of Pediatrics, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus.
BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 Aug 6;25(1):1032. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13241-3.
Leadership and job satisfaction constitute important characteristics of health professionals' employment status. We evaluated the association between physicians' leadership and job satisfaction among health professionals in the public health sector of Cyprus.
A cross-sectional survey with self-administered questionnaires was implemented among all physicians from the public health sector of Cyprus (Ministry of Health, administration offices, public hospitals and healthcare centers). In this context we used two standardized internationally validated instruments: the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5X), and the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS).
A total of 690 eligible physicians were invited to participate, of whom 511 completed the survey and 9 were excluded. A final sample of 502 physicians (262 male and 235 female) were included in the statistical analyses. The mean participants' age was 47.7 years (SD = 9.2), whilst the mean number of years of experience in the public sector was 12.4 years (SD = 8.4). Transactional and transformational leadership were strongly associated with six out of the nine job satisfaction subscales, as well as with the total job satisfaction scale. Passive leadership was negatively associated with job satisfaction. Overall, total leadership showed a strong statistically significant association with total job satisfaction [odds ratio = 3.88, 95% CI (2.27, 6.63)].
We found strong and statistically significant associations between transactional and transformational leadership styles and health professionals' job satisfaction in most of the job satisfaction subscales. Establishing a causal relationship between the above requires further investigations with appropriate study design.
领导力和工作满意度是卫生专业人员就业状况的重要特征。我们评估了塞浦路斯公共卫生部门医生的领导力与工作满意度之间的关联。
对塞浦路斯公共卫生部门（卫生部、行政办公室、公立医院和医疗中心）的所有医生进行了一项采用自填问卷的横断面调查。在此过程中，我们使用了两种经过国际验证的标准化工具：多因素领导力问卷（MLQ - 5X）和工作满意度调查（JSS）。
共邀请了690名符合条件的医生参与，其中511人完成了调查，9人被排除。最终有502名医生（262名男性和235名女性）纳入统计分析。参与者的平均年龄为47.7岁（标准差=9.2），而在公共部门的平均工作年限为12.4年（标准差=8.4）。交易型和变革型领导力与九个工作满意度子量表中的六个以及总体工作满意度量表密切相关。被动型领导力与工作满意度呈负相关。总体而言，总体领导力与总体工作满意度显示出强烈的统计学显著关联[优势比=3.88，95%置信区间（2.27，6.63）]。
我们发现交易型和变革型领导风格与大多数工作满意度子量表中的卫生专业人员工作满意度之间存在强烈且具有统计学意义的关联。要确定上述两者之间的因果关系需要采用适当的研究设计进行进一步调查。
