Depression Research and Treatment

Research Article

Effect of Affective Temperaments Assessed by the TEMPS-A on the Relationship between Work-Related Stressors and Depressive Symptoms among Workers in Their Twenties to Forties in Japan

Table 2

Descriptive statistics and Cronbach's alpha coefficients of dependent and independen variables ().


Variables	Mean	SD	Items	Range	The Cronbach’s alpha

GHQ-12⁽¹⁾	29.77	5.56	12	17–48	0.84
GHQ-12⁽²⁾	4.66	2.20	12	0–11	0.48
Effort⁽³⁾	13.69	4.74	6	6–30	0.87
Rewards⁽³⁾	39.92	8.29	11	11–55	0.91
Overcommitment⁽³⁾	13.60	3.48	6	6–24	0.80
Depressive⁽⁴⁾	1.42	0.17	21	1.00–1.86	0.69
Cyclothymic⁽⁴⁾	1.30	0.22	21	1.00–2.00	0.85
Hyperthymic⁽⁴⁾	1.27	0.18	21	1.00–1.86	0.78
Irritable⁽⁴⁾	1.18	0.18	21	1.00–1.86	0.85
Anxious⁽⁴⁾	1.24	0.21	26	1.00–1.96	0.89

⁽¹⁾Scored using the Likert method (1-2-3-4).
⁽²⁾Scored using the GHQ method (0-0-1-1).
⁽³⁾Subscales of the Japanese short version of Effort-Reward Imbalance scale.
⁽⁴⁾Affective temperaments assessed by the TEMPS-A.