A longitudinal study on emotional distress among local government staff seven years after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China

Table 2 Regression analyses of earthquake exposure and professional quality of life predicting emotional distress at 1 and 7 years after the Wenchuan earthquake

Predictors	Prediction of one-year emotional distress ^a			Prediction of seven-year emotional distress ^a
Predictors	β	p	∆R²	β	p	∆R²
Model 1 ^b: Earthquake exposure			0.048^*			0.012
House damage	−0.02	0.793		−0.01	0.921
Number of moves after earthquake	0.17	0.011		0.01	0.982
Number of relatives died	0.14	0.036		−0.03	0.764
Injured	−0.05	0.464		−0.11	0.211
Model 2 ^b: Professional quality of life			0.250^***			0.032
Compassion satisfaction score	−0.11	0.103		0.04	0.680
Burnout score	0.17	0.018		0.21	0.047
Secondary traumatic stress score	0.39	< 0.001		−0.03	0.745

^aAll models adjusted for age, sex, education, religion, marital status, and family income
^bModels 1 and 2 were tested separately
* p < 0.05, *** p < 0.001

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