Testing the incremental effect of professional commitment on intent to leave one's profession beyond the effects of external, personal, and work-related variables

There has been less empirical research focusing on intent to leave one's profession than on other types of interrole transitions. Using a longitudinal sample of 457 repeat-respondent medical technologists, this study found that younger and less satisfied medical technologists had a higher intent to leave their profession. Also. men showed a stronger intent to leave than women. After controlling for these initial correlates, professional commitment accounted for significant additional variance in intent to leave profession, (C) 1998 Academic Press.