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Table 4 The differences in challenge stress (CHS), hindrance stress (HS), public service motivation (PSM), and job performance (JP) among the healthcare workers’ demographic characteristics

From: How job stress influences job performance among Chinese healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study

Variable

Age

p

Job title

p

Sex

p

Seniority

p

Post

p

Young (n = 571)

Middle (n = 613)

Old (n = 401)

Early career

(n = 1246)

Mid/late career (n = 285)

Men (n = 553)

Women (n = 1007)

Below 5 years (n = 648)

Above 5 years (n = 926)

Physicians (n = 722)

Nurses (n = 523)

Others (n = 285)

CHS

3.39 (0.66)

3.60 (0.71)

3.54 (0.78)

***

3.49 (0.71)

3.62 (0.77)

*

3.54 (0.76)

3.50 (0.70)

–

3.39 (0.69)

3.60 (0.73)

*

3.60 (0.73)

3.45 (0.69)

3.42 (0.70)

***

HS

2.74 (0.78)

2.96 (0.81)

2.95 (0.81)

***

2.85 (0.80)

3.00 (0.83)

–

2.97 (0.88)

2.82 (0.76)

***

2.79 (0.81)

2.94 (0.80)

–

2.94 (0.83)

2.83 (0.77)

2.78 (0.81)

**

PSM

3.65 (0.66)

3.34 (0.66)

3.82 (0.70)

***

3.68 (0.67)

3.78 (0.72)

–

3.73 (0.70)

3.67 (0.66)

–

3.67 (0.65)

3.72 (0.69)

–

3.71 (0.68)

3.67 (0.66)

3.70 (0.68)

–

JP

3.76 (0.57)

3.83 (0.57)

4.00 (0.56)

***

3.82 (0.58)

4.00 (0.56)

*

3.87 (0.58)

3.83 (0.57)

–

3.75 (0.59)

3.92 (0.56)

**

3.85 (0.57)

3.83 (0.57)

3.90 (0.58)

–

  1. Numbers outside parentheses are mean values; numbers inside parentheses are SD values
  2. ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05