Do unfavourable working conditions explain mental health inequalities between ethnic groups?: cross-sectional data of the HELIUS study

Table 6 Linear regression of depressive symptoms^a explained by ethnicity, with work stress as potential mediator

Works stress Models:	1: Ethnicity + age and gender		2: Ethnicity + work stress + age and gender		Attenuation %^b	Mediation test^c	95 % CI (bootstrap)
	b	95 % CI	b	95 % CI
Dutch (reference)	-	-	-	-		-	-
African Surinamese	0.01	(−0.30 to 0.32)	0.47	(0.18 to 0.76)	-	−0.47	(−0.61 to −0.34)
South-Asian Surinamese	1.07	(0.75 to 1.39)	1.17	(0.87 to 1.47)	-	−0.07	(−0.21 to 0.08)
Turkish	1.82	(1.49 to 2.16)	1.91	(1.60 to 2.21)	-	−0.08	(−0.22 to 0.08)
Ghanaian	−0.34	(−0.71 to 0.03)	0.50	(0.15 to 0.84)	-	−0.90	(−1.07 to −0.75)
Moroccan	1.23	(0.84 to 1.61)	1.53	(1.18 to 1.88)	24 %	−0.30	(−0.47 to −0.13)

^aDepressive symptoms scores range from 0 to 27, higher scores reflect more depressive symptoms
^b% Change in B calculated as (B_{ethnicity+workcondition}-B_ethnicity)/(B_ethnicity); only for models where the mediation test for that ethnic group showed a statistically significant higher risk of mental health problems and was statistically significant. Negative signs (−) are used for changes towards non-significance (zero B)
^cBold printed figures represent statistically significant mediation for that ethnic group

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