Occupational stressors and its organizational and individual correlates: A nationwide study of Norwegian ambulance personnel

Sterud, Tom; Hem, Erlend; Ekeberg, Øivind; Lau, Bjørn

doi:10.1186/1471-227X-8-16

Table 3 Multiple regressions on the severity dimension (n = 1005)

From: Occupational stressors and its organizational and individual correlates: A nationwide study of Norwegian ambulance personnel

		Lack of co-worker support		Lack of leader support		Time pressure		Demanding job tasks		Non-emergency tasks index		Serious Operational tasks		Physical demands
		β	Sig	β	Sig	β	Sig	β	Sig	β	Sig	β	Sig	β	Sig
Gender	Men	0.03	n.s	0.03	n.s	0.12	**	0.07	*	0.05	n.s	-0.07	*	-0.04	n.s
Age		-0.12	**	-0.09	**	0.02	n.s	-0.07	n.s	-0.09	**	0.00	n.s	0.03	n.s
Neuroticism		0.17	**	0.14	**	0.06	n.s	0.11	*	0.14	**	0.13	**	0.11	**
Control		0.02	n.s	-0.03	n.s	0.05	n.s	0.02	n.s	0.06	n.s	-0.02	n.s	-0.02	n.s
Introversion		0.04	n.s	0.02	n.s	0.04	n.s	-0.04	n.s	0.02	n.s	-0.05	n.s	0.02	n.s
Self-efficacy		0.08	*	0.07	*	-0.12	**	-0.16	**	-0.16	**	-0.16	**	-0.02	n.s
Size of	> 100.000 = ref.
service	50–100000	0.08	n.s	0.00	n.s	0.03	n.s	0.03	n.s	0.04	n.s	0.00	n.s	-0.04	n.s
population	20–50000	0.08	n.s	-0.06	n.s	0.05	n.s	0.06	n.s	0.10	*	0.04	n.s	-0.05	n.s
	5–20000	0.01	n.s	-0.07	n.s	-0.04	n.s	0.02	n.s	0.07	n.s	0.02	n.s	-0.10	*
	< 5000	-0.09	n.s	-0.13	*	-0.08	n.s	-0.02	n.s	0.00	n.s	0.01	n.s	-0.08	n.s
Work time	Daytime = ref.
	Shift	-0.03	n.s	-0.04	n.s	-0.09	**	-0.06	ns	-0.06	*	-0.02	n.s	-0.03	n.s
Working	Never = ref.
overtime	< monthly	0.10	n.s	0.09	n.s	0.06	n.s	0.06	n.s	0.17	*	0.21	**	0.20	**
	monthly	0.15	*	0.09	n.s	0.14	*	0.09	ns	0.21	**	0.27	**	0.20	**
	2 week	0.16	**	0.12	*	0.11	n.s	0.12	*	0.22	**	0.25	**	0.23	**
	weekly	0.17	**	0.08	n.s	0.12	*	0.05	ns	0.17	**	0.20	**	0.24	**
Colleague	Yes = ref.
support	No	0.02	n.s	0.04	n.s	0.01	n.s	0.06	n.s	-0.01	n.s	0.04	n.s	0.05	n.s
system	No, would be nice	0.02	n.s	0.09	*	-0.03	n.s	0.06	n.s	0.00	n.s	0.09	*	0.09	*
	Planned	0.03	n.s	0.05	n.s	0.02	n.s	-0.01	n.s	0.06	n.s	0.05	n.s	0.04	n.s
'Exposure	No = ref.
to serious	One or few times	0.11	**	0.12	**	0.11	**	0.11	**	0.11	**	0.16	**	0.06	n.s
Event'	Sometimes	0.14	**	0.16	**	0.20	**	0.14	**	0.15	**	0.24	**	0.15	**
	Not relevant to me	0.01	n.s	0.01	n.s	-0.07	*	-0.02	n.s	-0.05	n.s	-0.02	n.s	-0.07	*
R2		0.09		0.06		0.08		0.08		0.11		0.15		0.06

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; β = standardized beta coefficients; ref. = reference category; Note. The item 'working overtime' was dropped from the index 'challenging job tasks' in the present analysis because 'overtime' was applied as an independent variable leading to an inflated correlation.

Back to article page

ISSN: 1471-227X

Contact us

General enquiries: journalsubmissions@springernature.com

BMC Emergency Medicine

Contact us