The Relationship of Work Motivation to Caregiver Work Life Quality at a Home for Protection and Development for Persons with Disabilities at the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

Abstract

This quantitative research examined motivation and caregiver work life quality classified by personal factors and analyzed the relationship between motivation and caregiver work life quality. Samples were 140 caregivers. Data was gathered by questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive statistics, including frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation, as well as deductive statistics and Pearson product moment correlation. Results were that most sample caregivers were married women aged from 46 to 55, having received high school diplomas and with one to ten years of professional experience, earning 10,001 to 15,000 baht in monthly income. Most samples had 13 to 15 days off monthly, alternating between two days on duty and two days of rest. Overall sample motivation for work was very high. However, salary was at a moderate level. Overall sample work life quality was very high, with progress and job security fair and adequate remuneration moderate. Work motivation had a statistically significant relationship to sample work life quality at a level of 0.01. These findings suggest that caregiver wage/remuneration rate should increase to reward difficult and dangerous work, to attract and durably retain government workers, while supporting training to enhance knowledge and increase operational efficiency.