Stayed or left public child welfare
Status of work at the time of the survey (Still employed in child welfare or not)

II. INDEPENDENT VARIABLES

A. DEMOGRAPHICS
Gender
Ethnicity/race
Age
Relationship status
Religion
Political party ideology
Significance of politics
Family of origin socioeconomic class
School attended
Extent of experience with the child welfare field

(Public, nonprofit and/or other) prior to entering graduate school

Year started graduate school
Full- or part-time status while in school
County employee status while in school
Field and method of practice while in school
Types of fieldwork during school
Year graduated
County of payback work
Present County of work
Salary
Union membership status
Category or service type of child welfare work
Amount of time spent in nonwork activities (as a percentage of total weekly time)

(Combined information for about 8 nonwork activities)

Caseload

Numbers of children
Numbers of families

How time is spent on the job (as a percentage of total time spent)

Direct client contact
In supervision
In management or planning activities
Community organization work Paperwork

Commitment to the Job (Likelihood of Leaving)
Motivators for Moving On

B. MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY
(used with permission from the authors)
Each subscale represents a factor
Emotional Exhaustion Subscale
Depersonalization Subscale
Sense of Personal Accomplishment Subscale

C. PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS
Principal components analysis combined the satisfaction, sources of support, client-related, visit-related, and stress related items.

Positive Supervision (PC#1)
Client Success (PC#2)
Challenge of Children (PC#3)
Worker Safety Concerns (PC#4)
Growth and Recognition (PC#5)
Personal Support (PC#6)
Authority (PC#7)
Workload (PC#8)
Autonomy (PC#9)
Co-worker Support (PC#10)
Other supervisors Support (PC#11)
Predictability of the Work (PC#12)
Cooperation with other workers (PC#13)
Responsibility (PC#14) S