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Table 1 Demographic and working characteristics of participants, and the distributions of all variables in mediating model in categorical items

From: Driver-passenger communicative stress and psychological distress among Chinese bus drivers: the mediating effect of job burnout

Variables

N

(%)

CS

EE

Cynicism

GHQ-12

Mean

(SD)

p

Mean

(SD)

p

Mean

(SD)

p

Mean

(SD)

p

Sex

 Male

289 (94.1)

4.84 (3.27)

0.829

2.56 (1.58)

0.002

1.96 (1.46)

<  0.001

1.52 (2.44)

0.065

 Female

18 (5.9)

4.67 (2.93)

 

1.39 (0.84)

 

0.72 (0.59)

 

0.44 (0.78)

 

Education

 Secondary school

89 (29.0)

4.65 (3.22)

0.786

2.43 (0.17)

0.744

2.04 (0.15)

0.226

1.46 (0.25)

0.431

 High school

172 (56.0)

4.86 (3.32)

 

2.55 (0.12)

 

1.89 (0.11)

 

1.56 (0.18)

 

 Undergraduate (above)

46 (15.0)

5.04 (3.01)

 

2.39 (0.23)

 

1.59 (0.21)

 

1.04 (0.35)

 

Marital Status

 Married

260 (84.7)

4.85 (3.15)

0.653

2.51 (1.56)

0.509

1.93 (1.44)

0.170

1.47 (2.33)

0.858

 Single

22 (7.2)

4.27 (3.64)

 

2.13 (1.50)

 

1.33 (1.22)

 

1.50 (2.94)

 

 Divorced/Widowed

25 (8.1)

5.12 (3.88)

 

2.61 (1.84)

 

1.97 (1.69)

 

1.20 (2.53)

 
  1. Note: CS  communicative stress, EE  emotional exhaustion, GHQ-12 = 12-item Chinese version of the General Health Questionnaire