The Relationship between Individual Personality Traits (Internality-Externality) and Psychological Distress in Employees in Japan

Table 5

Effects of psychological distress, sociodemographic, and employment-related factors on the internality-externality (locus of control) scale (stepwise multiple regression analysis).

	Extracted factors	B	𝛽
	Sex	−0.847	−0.061	*
All participants	Compulsory/senior high school (Education)	−1.471	−0.107	**
(𝑅^2=0.146)	Managerial class (Employee type)	−1.204	−0.055	*
	Kessler 6 (K6) score	−0.500	−0.365	**
Male	Kessler 6 (K6) score	−0.570	−0.391	**
(𝑅^2=0.153)
	Age 40–49	−1.379	−0.095	**
	Age 50-	−1.362	−0.082	*
Female	Compulsory/senior high school (Education)	−2.235	−0.159	**
(𝑅^2=0.156)	Full-time working (Employment status)	1.994	0.097	**
	Managerial class (Employee type)	−1.793	−0.066	*
	Kessler 6 (K6) score	−0.466	−0.357	**

𝑅²: coefficient of determinant; B: regression coefficient; 𝛽: standardized regression coefficient.
* 𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01.