THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILD HEALTH AND JOB SATISFACTION OF PARENTS AMONG STAFF OF EDUCATION SYSTEM IN MASHHAD CITY

Many studies around the world show that children’s health is affected by social
and working conditions of their families. Employment and different parental job conditions are among
the factors affecting on child’s physical and mental health. According to limimted Iranian reseach on
the field of study, this article is focused on relationship between parental job satisfaction and their
children’s health.
Material & Method: This correlational study included 200 men and women working in education
system (from four schools) in Mashhad city and having at least one child of 5 to 18 years old. The
samples were selected in a randomly stratified sampling way. Data gathered by Minessota job
satisfaction questionnaire as well as a 28-items Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ-PF28). Confirmatory
factor analysis and stepwise linear regression were used for analysing Data in SPSS 22 and Amos
softwares.
Results: Child health dimensions were explained in different percentages by three sub-scales of job
satisfaction. According to 12 regression models, the highest variance was related to child's emotionalimpact (10% expalined by extrinsic scale and total satisfaction score), total score of child health (8.5%
by total satisfaction score), and emotional behaviour problems (7.7% by intrinsic scale). The pain and
family cohesion dimensions were not explained by any subscales.
Conclusion: Parental job satisfaction is related to child health, and to some extent, it has a determinant
role on that. however parental job conditions are known in global litrature as a social determinant
affecting child health, this field was not taken into cosideratin in Iran yet. It is suggested that in future
studies, researchers investigate the relation and effect of job conditions on child health in different
socioeconomic groups