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Table 4 Means and standard deviation of ERI scales for different occupations

From: The Gutenberg Health Study: measuring psychosocial factors at work and predicting health and work-related outcomes with the ERI and the COPSOQ questionnaire

 

ERI scales

 

Effort

Reward

Overcommitment

ERI ratio

Effort_100

Reward_100

Overcommitment_100

ERI ratio_100

AGRIC

15.6 (4.2)

46.6 (9.8)

15.1 (4.0)

0.7 (0.3)

40.0 (17.4)

87.3 (15.3)

50.3 (21.6)

51.4 (33.7)

ELECT

13.3 (4.1)

46.9 (6.3)

11.7 (3.1)

0.5 (0.2)

30.2 (17.3)

81.6 (14.3)

33.3 (17.8)

39.2 (26.1)

ENGIN

14.0 (3.1)

48.5 (5.4)

13.3 (3.5)

0.6 (0.1)

33.3 (12.7)

85.8 (11.6)

40.6 (19.4)

39.9 (17.2)

TECHNI

13.9 (3.8)

48.7 (6.2)

12.9 (3.7)

0.5 (0.2)

33.5 (16.0)

86.0 (14.3)

38.5 (20.4)

41.3 (23.8)

SALE

12.1 (4.2)

49.7 (5.4)

12.3 (3.7)

0.5 (0.2)

26.6 (17.7)

87.1 (13.6)

34.8 (20.5)

32.4 (23.2)

RETAIL

13.8 (4.6)

47.1 (7.0)

13.6 (3.1)

0.6 (0.3)

32.2 (19.1)

82.8 (15.0)

42.3 (17.5)

42.8 (31.8)

BANK

13.7 (4.9)

48.1 (5.7)

13.3 (4.2)

0.6 (0.2)

32.1 (20.2)

85.4 (12.8)

40.5 (23.1)

40.3 (28.4)

CONSUL

15.1 (4.4)

49.5 (6.0)

14.0 (3.8)

0.6 (0.2)

37.8 (18.3)

89.3 (12.2)

45.0 (20.8)

44.2 (24.9)

LANDTR

14.6 (3.8)

47.8 (6.0)

12.6 (4.0)

0.6 (0.2)

36.0 (15.7)

83.2 (14.2)

37.4 (22.1)

45.4 (23.2)

WAREHOUSE

15.5 (4.3)

44.8 (7.4)

13.1 (3.8)

0.7 (0.2)

39.4 (17.9)

76.7 (16.8)

38.9 (20.2)

55.9 (31.2)

CONSULT

14.7 (3.7)

50.1 (5.8)

14.3 (3.5

0.6 (0.2)

36.5 (15.8)

88.4 (14.3)

45.8 (19.6)

43.0 (23.4)

ASSEMBL

14.3 (3.6)

47.2 (6.2)

14.0 (2.6)

0.6 (0.2)

34.5 (15.2)

82.2 (14.0)

44.4 (14.6)

43.4 (21.2)

CLERKS

13.0 (3.8)

47.9 (6.6)

13.3 (4.0)

0.5 (0.2)

29.2 (15.4)

84.7 (14.9)

41.1 (22.4)

38.6 (29.0)

OFFICE

12.4 (4.0)

47.4 (7.4)

12.5 (3.8)

0.5 (0.2)

26.9 (16.8)

82.8 (16.8)

36.2 (21.0)

35.7 (26.9)

SERVICE

14.5 (4.6)

48.1 (8.6)

14.9 (4.5)

0.6 (0.2)

35.6 (19.0)

79.9 (24.5)

49.6 (24.9)

57.4 (58.4)

LEGAL

13.5 (4.8)

49.4 (3.9)

14.0 (3.1)

0.6 (0.2)

32.1 (19.9)

86.5 (11.1)

44.4 (17.1)

38.2 (25.3)

JOURN

11.9 (2.8)

46.8 (6.1)

11.7 (3.3)

0.5 (0.1)

24.6 (11.5)

84.0 (14.2)

31.9 (18.6)

29.9 (14.7)

ARTISTS

13.3 (3.7)

44.8 (9.7)

13.8 (3.3)

0.6 (0.3)

30.5 (15.5)

81.2 (19.5)

43.1 (18.2)

46.7 (44.4)

PHYSICANS

14.8 (3.6)

49.3 (7.2)

13.0 (2.8)

0.6 (0.2)

36.6 (14.8)

86.4 (15.9)

37.9 (15.7)

44.5 (20.5)

OTHER HEALTH

14.4 (4.4)

47.2 (7.4)

12.5 (3.4)

0.6 (0.3)

35.2 (18.4)

83.5 (16.4)

36.1 (18.6)

47.7 (35.4)

SOCIAL

15.1 (5.8)

47.5 (7.8)

13.1 (3.8)

0.6 (0.4)

38.7 (24.0)

83.7 (17.0)

39.4 (20.9)

52.7 (50.5)

TEACHER

14.3 (4.2)

49.1 (6.1)

13.8 (3.8)

0.6 (0.2)

34.8 (17.2)

88.0 (13.4)

43.4 (21.2)

41.6 (24.6)

SCIENCE

11.9 (3.4)

50.3 (6.6)

13.1 (3.0)

0.4 (0.1)

25.3 (14.4)

88.9 (14.3)

39.1 (16.5)

27.8 (16.0)

OTHER

10.6 (4.1)

49.7 (6.7)

12.3 (4.1)

0.4 (0.3)

19.7 (17.0)

89.5 (13.4)

34.8 (22.8)

24.9 (33.8)

  1. The columns list the ERI scales (see Tables 1), the rows represent occupational groups.
  2. Legend for occupational groups:
  3. a): Agricultural occupations (AGRIC)
  4. b): Electrical occupations (ELECT)
  5. c): Engineers (ENGIN)
  6. d): Technicians (TECHNI)
  7. e): Sales personnel (SALE)
  8. f): Wholesale and retail salesmen, purchasing and sales professionals (RETAIL)
  9. g): Banking and insurance professionals (BANK)
  10. h): Other service consultants and related occupations (CONSUL)
  11. i): Occupations of land transport (LANDTR)
  12. j): Warehouse managers, warehousemen and transport workers (WAREHOUSE)
  13. k): Occupations in management, management consultancy and company audit (CONSULT)
  14. l): Assemblyman, representatives (ASSEMBL)
  15. m): Accounting clerks, computer scientists (CLERKS)
  16. n): Office jobs, commercial employees (OFFICE)
  17. o): Service and guard occupations (SERVICE)
  18. p): Occupations in the legal and executive system (LEGAL)
  19. q): Journalistic, translation, library and related professions (JOURN)r): Artistic and related professions (ARTISTS)
  20. s): Physicians, Pharmacists (PHYSICANS)
  21. t): Other occupations in the health sector (OTHER HEALTH)
  22. u): Social occupations (SOCIAL)
  23. v): Teachers (TEACHER)
  24. w): Scientific occupations in the humanities or nature sciences (SCIENCE)
  25. x): Workforces without further specification (OTHER)
  26. Examples of similar results between ERI and COPSOQ are highlighted with bold letters, examples of dissimilar results are underscored and highlighted with italic letters in both Tables 4 and 5.
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