Table 5 Workers’ characteristics and job stress score
Items | Male | Female | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre (2006) | Post (2008) | P valuea | Pre (2006) | Post (2008) | P valuea | ||||||
N | Mean (SD) | N | Mean (SD) | N | Mean (SD) | N | Mean (SD) | ||||
N | 19 | 19 | 31 | 26 | |||||||
Age (year) | 19 | 46.4 (8.4) | 19 | 50.3 (9.2) | n.s. | 31 | 47.6 (13.4) | 25 | 44.6 (14.7) | n.s. | |
Years of employment in current job | 18 | 22.2 (7.3) | 18 | 23.2 (9.1) | n.s. | 24 | 7.8 (8.0) | 23 | 5.1 (4.0) | n.s. | |
Type of employment | |||||||||||
Permanent employee (%) | 19 | (100.0) | 18 | (94.7) | n.s.b | 7 | (22.6) | 10 | (38.5) | n.s.b | |
Temporary employee (%) | 0 | (0.0) | 1 | (5.3) | 17 | (77.4) | 13 | (61.5) | |||
Job stress score (total) | 17 | 17 | 28.9 (4.7) | 15 | 35.7 (5.8) | <0.01 | 21 | 34.3 (6.8) | 21 | 32.8 (5.6) | n.s. |
Quantitative overload | 3 | 17 | 5.2 (1.6) | 19 | 7.3 (1.6) | <0.001 | 26 | 6.7 (1.8) | 23 | 6.5 (1.7) | n.s. |
Qualitative overload | 3 | 18 | 5.9 (2.0) | 19 | 6.4 (1.3) | n.s. | 27 | 6.5 (1.5) | 24 | 6.2 (1.7) | n.s. |
Physical load | 1 | 18 | 2.2 (0.7) | 19 | 2.5 (0.5) | n.s. | 30 | 2.6 (0.6) | 26 | 2.7 (0.9) | n.s. |
Poor job control | 3 | 18 | 4.6 (2.1) | 18 | 6.7 (1.4) | <0.01 | 27 | 5.6 (2.3) | 26 | 5.5 (2.2) | n.s. |
Poor skill discretion | 1 | 18 | 1.6 (0.9) | 18 | 1.5 (0.9) | n.s. | 27 | 1.2 (0.9) | 23 | 1.6 (0.9) | n.s. |
Poor interpersonal relationship | 3 | 18 | 4.8 (1.8) | 16 | 5.6 (2.0) | n.s. | 24 | 5.0 (2.2) | 23 | 5.9 (1.4) | n.s. |
Poor workplace environment | 1 | 18 | 2.6 (0.5) | 19 | 1.9 (0.7) | <0.01 | 30 | 2.7 (0.6) | 24 | 1.4 (0.9) | <0.001 |
Poor job fitness | 2 | 18 | 3.6 (0.7) | 19 | 5.5 (0.9) | <0.001 | 28 | 4.4 (1.3) | 23 | 4.8 (1.4) | n.s. |