Can self-reported disability assessment behaviour of insurance physicians be explained? Applying the ASE model

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Table 2 Final model, correlations between exogenous variables

Exogenous variables	Med spec	Hours/ week	Years exp	Industrial	Retail	WAO
Med spec	-
Hours/week	-.0.01	-
Years experience	-.0.09	-0.09	-
Industrial	0.03	-0.09	0.06	-
Retail	0.04	0.10	-0.15*	0.27**	-
WAO	-0.12#	-0.05	.-0.05	-0.14*	-0.01	-

Med spec = additional medical specialization; Hours/week = working hours per week; Years exp = years experience as insurance physician; Industrial = majority of clients from industrial sector; Retail = majority of clients from retail sector; WAO = disability assessments mainly under the Disability Insurance Act legislation.
# = p ≤ 0.10; * = p ≤ 0.05; ** = p ≤ 0.01; other off-diagonal correlations are not significant.

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