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The purpose of this study was to investigate the health behaviors and affecting factors on the job satisfaction of pharmacists working at community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy. Subjects served for this study consisted of 1,180 pharmacists including 844 pharmacists working at community pharmacy and 336 hospital pharmacists. Data were collected through questionnaire survey for 4 months from 1st May to 31st August in the year 1998. The results were as follows : (1) The general characteristics among the subjects showed that the pharmacists working at community pharmacy were predominantly more male(M : F ratio = 54.1 : 45.9), higher age, and higher married status than hospital pharmacists who are predominantly more female(M : F ratio = 9.2 : 90.8). Also the pharmacists working at community pharmacy described that they have more concerns on their own heath status, exercises and drug medications for healthy life, but showed higher frequency of smoking and alcohol drinking rather than hospital pharmacists. (2) The job satisfactions of the pharmacists working at community pharrrracy were influenced by several factors such as their own heaths, family-member, good residential environment, good relationship with their neighborhood, and community activities. On the other hand, the job satisfactions of hospital pharmacists were increased according to higher age, married status, and the longer working career. The comparison of the job satisfactions between two groups showed that hospital pharmacists responded positively to the levels of self-developments, work loads, working times, and incomes, but they were negative to acknowledgements to their job professional levels from others. (3) The positive factors related to job satisfactions among the pharmacists working at community pharmacy were higher incomes, proper work loads, speciality perceived by themselves, the levels of self-developments, and good acknowledgements to their job professional levels from others. But those among hospital pharmacists were the levels of self-developments, work loads, speciality perceived by themselves, working times, and incomes in these orders. (4) The comparison of the correlations between job satisfactions and the factors of two groups showed that in case of the pharmacists working at community pharmacy, the important factors were incomes, the levels of self-developments, work loads, speciality perceived by themselves, etc. in these orders, but in case of hospital pharmacists, those were work loads, the levels of self-developments, working times, acknowledgements to their job professional levels from others and age levels. And incomes was lower-level factor on job satisfactions. (5) Pharmacists who always managed their physical fitness showed the higher levels in job satisfactions than the pharmacists who did not. From the results of this study, it was found that the job satisfactions of the pharmacists working at community pharmacy and hospital pharmacists were influenced by working loads, the levels of self-developments, speciality perceived by themselves and acknowledge-ments to their job professional levels perceived by themselves. And it was recommended that the managing authorities should build up the facilities for physical fitness and welfare facilities for the employee, and offer the employee chance of self-actualization through education and information supply of clinical pharmacy.
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