Table 1 Employees’ and workplaces’ characteristics and baseline scores of workplace social capital in the intervention and the control group in the study sample
Intervention group | Control group | Chi2 (p) | t (p) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | % | n | Mean | SD | % | n | |||
Employee characteristics | 386 | 220 | ||||||||
Age | 42.4 | 10.4 | 44.6 | 9.8 | 2.53 (0.01) | |||||
Women | 86.0 | 332 | 89.5 | 197 | 1.58 (0.21) | |||||
Job group | 2.13 (0.34) | |||||||||
Nursery nurses | 60.4 | 233 | 55.0 | 121 | ||||||
Nursery nurse assistants | 31.1 | 120 | 33.6 | 74 | ||||||
Other job groups | 8.5 | 33 | 11.4 | 25 | ||||||
Workplace characteristics | ||||||||||
Size | 23.4 | 8.4 | 21.8 | 9.6 | −1.98 (0.05) | |||||
Workplace type | 1.82 (0.40) | |||||||||
Integrated | 76.9 | 297 | 78.6 | 173 | ||||||
Day care | 18.7 | 72 | 19.1 | 42 | ||||||
Kindergarten | 4.4 | 17 | 2.3 | 5 | ||||||
Baseline scores of social capital | ||||||||||
Vertical | 3.87 | 0.43 | 386 | 3.71 | 0.52 | 220 | −3.79 (< 0.01) | |||
Horizontal | 4.00 | 0.32 | 386 | 3.86 | 0.22 | 220 | −6.58 (< 0.01) | |||