Hearing loss and worker morale

Abstract

53 (91% of total personnel) employees of a small factory were measured for American Medical Association binaural hearing loss, job satisfaction (measured by the Tear Ballot for Industry), mean tenure in past jobs, and age, in an attempt to measure some of the psychological effects of hearing loss on morale. When age is held constant by partial correlation variance in hearing loss appears to account for one-sixth of the variance in job satisfaction; r being -42. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)