The impact of employee level and work stress on mental health and GP service use: an analysis of a sample of Australian government employees

Table 2 Mean sociodemographic measures, work stress and working hours by government employee categories

	Government employee categories
	Junior	Intermediate	Senior 1	Senior 2	Executive	P
Years of education	13.46	14.87	15.69	16.03	16.58	0.37
Number of life events in past 6 months	1.02	0.95	0.92	0.89	0.73	0.59
Level of household responsibility	9.90	9.80	9.66	9.57	8.42	0.01
Job control score*	2.91	3.12	3.25	3.29	3.35	<0.01
Manageable job demands score*	2.33	2.28	2.03	1.81	1.63	<0.01
Skill discretion score*	2.76	3.13	3.35	3.42	3.54	<0.01
Job security*	2.64	2.76	2.78	2.89	2.91	0.02
Number of hours worked per week	36.78	39.20	43.20	48.06	53.73	<0.01

* Individuals' responses were scored from 1 to 4. Higher scores were given to work circumstances in which the individual had more job control, more manageable job demands, higher skill discretion and greater job security.

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