Burnout, working conditions and gender - results from the northern Sweden MONICA Study

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Table 4 Multiple regression analyses of Shirom Melamed Burnout Questionnaire (SMBQ) scores and selected independent variables

	Model ¹		Model ²
	Beta	t-value	Beta	t-value	R ^{2 †}
Age	-0.123	-3.710***	-0.109	-3.213***
Sex
Male ^r
Female	0.108	3.253***	0.059	1.872	0.028
Social support (integration)
High ^r
Low			0.187	5.874***	0.069
Perceived economic situation
Satisfied ^r
Dissatisfied			0.138	4.230***	0.095
Physical activity
Medium - high ^r
Low			0.131	4.180***	0.115
Demand at work
Low ^r
High			0.166	5.140***	0.134
New job possibilities
Yes ^r
No			0.078	2.289***	0.142
Control at work
High ^r
Low			0.077	2.388*	0.154
Physical work load
Modest - heavy ^r
Sedentary - light			0.070	2.127*	0.158
Risk for unemployment
Low ^r
High			0.066	2.086*	0.162
F	15.369***		16.876***

*P-value ≤ 0.05, **p-value ≤ 0.01, ***p-value ≤ 0.001. ^r Reference category. ¹ Variables entered: age and sex. ² Variables forced in: age and sex, variables entered stepwise: all independent variables from Table 2-3.
^† The combined R ² value from each step in the stepwise regression.

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