ABSTRACT
Satisfaction can be understood as much more than merely an ephemeral subjective experience of little concern to researchers. The only statistically significant difference in the Satisfaction construct was that between full-timers and part-timers, with the former group expressing a higher degree of Satisfaction. The results provide more detail on responses to the individual survey items that were used to build the Satisfaction construct. These results report on a range of factors related to satisfaction, from perceptions of administration creativity to correlations between satisfaction and other activities to long-range projections of respondent happiness with their current professional positions. The chapter deals with the prediction that part-timers would express lower levels of satisfaction than full-timers, and that those with the least and greatest levels of experience would be more satisfied than those with middling numbers of years in the profession. Part-timers were less satisfied than full-timers.
