A preliminary evaluation of psychological stress amongst workers in Taiwan: a cross-sectional survey

Table 3 Multivariate regression analysis/logistic regression analysis for work/non-work-related stress intensity scores and demographic/work attributes of personal burnout, work burnout and client burnout measured by Copenhagen Burnout Inventory as well as poor mental health measured by Chinese Health Questionnaire (n = 2319)

	Personal burnout		Work burnout		Client burnout		Poor mental health (CHQ score≧3)
	β	p	β	p	β	p	β	e^β(OR)	p
Total intensity score of experienced work-related stress items (35 items)^a	0.20	***	0.22	***	0.23	***	0.03	1.03	***
Total intensity score of experienced non-work-related stress items (23 items)^a	0.03	ns	0.00	ns	0.02	ns	0.03	1.03	**
Gender
Male	0		0		0		0
Female	0.23	***	0.25	***	3.59	*	0.58	1.78	***
Age (years)	− 0.08	*	− 0.12	***	− 0.32	**	− 0.03	0.97	*
Education
Senior high and below	0		0		0		0
University/College	0.02	ns	0.06	*	3.08	ns	− 0.22	0.80	ns
Graduate	0.01	ns	0.05	ns	− 0.43	ns	− 0.11	0.90	ns
Marital status
Married/cohabited	0		0		0		0
Single/divorced/separated/widowed	0.00	ns	0.01	ns	− 2.27	ns	0.29	1.33	ns
Seniority (years)	0.02	ns	0.00	ns	− 0.05	ns	0.02	1.02	ns
Employment grade
G1/G2: manager/professional	0		0		0		0
G3/G4: non-manual skilled/low-skilled	− 0.09	***	− 0.11	***	− 0.21	ns	− 0.54	0.58	**
G5/G6: manual skilled/low-skilled	− 0.05	ns	− 0.40	ns	− 1.25	ns	− 0.29	0.75	ns
Weekly working hour (hours)	0.06	**	0.08	***	0.07	ns	0.01	1.01	ns
Employment status
Permanent	0		0		0		0
Non-permanent	− 0.04	ns	− 0.04	ns	− 7.30	**	− 0.25	0.78	ns

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; ns: not significant
^aThe incidents marked by respondents as having been experienced during the past year were weighted based on the average stress level scores of the experienced items in the overall sample. This calculation is mainly based on Zimmermann et al. [22]

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