Estimating the Impact of Workplace Bullying: Humanistic and Economic Burden among Workers with Chronic Medical Conditions

Table 2

Sample characteristics across workplace bullying status. values represent significant levels of for categorical variables, one-way ANOVA for continuous variables.

	No workplace bullying; = 632 (83.7%); (%)	Workplace bullying; = 123 (16.3%); (%)
Women	367 (58.6)	68 (56.7)	ns
Married or de facto	392 (62.2)	67 (54.9)	ns
University education	154 (24.5)	22 (18.0)	ns
Job security	520 (84.1)	98 (15.9)	ns
Job demand			ns
Physical dem.	59 (86.8)	9 (13.2)
Mental dem.	303 (85.1)	53 (14.9)
Mixed dem.	261 (81.6)	59 (18.4)
	Mean (sd)	Mean (sd)	p
Age	44.6 (10.9)	47.2 (12.3)	0.02
Time since diagnosis (years)	9.89 (9.71)	10.0 (9.97)	ns
Hospitalization (days)	1.61 (5.83)	1.88 (4.46)	ns