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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the participants

From: Development of a new measure for mental retirement; testing of a three-factor structure of mental retirement in different subgroups

  

Total

Age

Education

Occupation

  

<  50 year

> = 50 year

Low

Interme-diate

High

Police officers

Office jobs

N:

867

449

380

176

408

257

230

637

%:

100%

54%

46%

21%

49%

31%

27%

73%

Age

Mean

46,7

38,1

56,9▲

46,3

47,3

45,9

40,4

48,9▲

SD

11,1

7,12

4,31

11,7

11,0

11,0

11,1

10,2

Gender

Male

54,4%

49,4%

59,5%▲

65,9%▲

56,9%

42,4%

70,3%▲

48,8%

Female

45,6%

50,6%▲

40,5%

34,1%

43,1%

57,6%▲

29,7%

51,2%▲

Education

Lower

20,9%

20,7%

20,1%

100%

41,6%▲

13,7%

Intermediate

48,5%

46,1%

51,7%

100%

53,0%

46,9%

High

30,6%

33,2%

28,2%

100%

5,5%

39,4%▲

Working hours per week

> = 35 h

69,0%

70,4%

67,6%

68,2%

69,9%

68,1%

74,9%

66,9%

20–34 h

28,7%

27,8%

29,7%

27,8%

28,2%

30,4%

21,5%

31,3%▲

12–19 h

1,4%

0,9%

1,8%

2,3%

1,2%

1,2%

0,9%

1,6%

<  12 h

0,8%

0,9%

0,8%

1,7%

0,7%

0,4%

2,7%▲

0,2%

Years working at organization

Mean

13,7

10,0

18,1▲

15,5

14,5

11,3

15,3▲

13,1

SD

11,3

6,79

13,8

11,9

11,7

10,0

10,9

11,4

Years working in function

Mean

6,26

5,05

7,66▲

7,13

6,76

4,89

6,48

6,18

SD

6,43

4,56

7,89

7,36

6,64

5,15

6,59

6,38

  1. ▲ and : p < 0,05, significant high (low) percentages and/or means.