Artículo Original El Papel de la Adaptación como Generadora de Satisfacción Laboral en Médicos de Salud Ocupacional THE ROLE OF ADAPTATION AS GENERATOR OF JOB SATISFACTION IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH DOCTORS

Objective: to analyze the theoretical construction of job satisfaction’sconcept through the adaptation to the job’s perception inoccupational health physicians. Method: it was applied the groundedtheory, using proactive until theoretical saturation theoretical sampling.The sample was composed of ten physicians dedicated tooccupational health in Mexico city, during the 2014. In-depth interviewswere applied and the data obtained were analyzed with thesoftware Atlas-ti, giving as a result: codes, which were integratedinto categories, with which the theory was generated. Results: Myreasons for choice, I changed my life, and Opportunities and projectswere the emerging categories with which joined the dimension ofAdaptation to the post, as a basic element of the theoretical constructionof the job satisfaction of occupational health physicians.Conclusions: Job satisfaction in occupational health physicians ispresented as its adaptation to the job. It did not exist since the beginningof their working lives in the area, but it was generated as theylearned and changed the attitude towards the work.