Table 3.

Partial Correlations of the Determinants of Physician Job Satisfaction

		Correlations Controlling for
		Characteristic	Bivariate Correlations	Physician Characteristics	Physician and Practice Characteristics	Physician Practice, and Office Characteristics	All Other Characteristics
Compensation and Care Management
Salary compensation	−.18^**	−.15^**	−.16^**	−.15^**	−.16^**
Productivity bonus	−.17^**	−.15^**	−.12^*	−.08	−.06
Financial withhold for referrals	−.13^**	−.07	−.05	−.03	−.06
Percentage patients in HMOs	−.05	−.02	−.04	−.09	−.07
Office prior approval required to refer to specialist inside the office	−.00	.04	.05	.04	.03
Office prior approval required to refer to specialist outside the office	−.11^*	−.05	−.04	−.04	−.03
Office follows written referral guidelines	−.02	.01	.03	.08	.05
Office follows written clinical guidelines for treating specific conditions	−.00	.01	.01	.09	.05
Office Characteristics
Solo practice	.11^*	.08	.09		.02
Primary group	−.14^**	−.14^*	−.16^**		.01
Multispecialty group	.07	.09	.11		.05
Number of physicians	−.08	−.14^*	−.14^*		−.24^**
Private ownership	.15^**	.14^**	.13^*		.05
Easy to refer	.23^**	.19^**	.16^**		.20^**
Physician Practice Characteristics
Patient visits per hour	−.03	−.05			−.01
Administrative hours per week	−.14^**	−.13^*			−.16^**
Percentage patients referred per month	−.11^*	−.05			−.01
Percentage female patients	−.09	−.06			−.08
Percentage nonwhite patients	−.10^*	−.04			.04
Percentage patients ≤18 years	−.02	.01			−.01
Percentage patients ≥65 years	−.00	−.00			.03
Percentage patients from middle- or upper-class households	.14^**	.13^*			.10
Physician Characteristics
Female	−.13^**				.00
White	.12^*				.10
Family practice	.02				.06
General practice	.01				−.02
Board-certified	−.01				.00
Years in practice	.12^*				−.05
Tolerance for uncertainty	.15^**				.16^**

* P < .05.
** P < .01