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 5

Multivariate logistic regression model for the GHQ-12 ( 𝑁 = 7 2 8 ).

VariablesModel 1(1,2)Model 2(1,3)
OR95% CI 𝑃 valueOR95% CI 𝑃 value

Sex (reference category = female)1.461 1.022–2.089 0.037 1.366 0.943–1.979 0.099
Age0.964 0.936–0.994 0.019 0.977 0.947–1.009 0.157
Frequency of working on days off per month (reference category = one day or more)1.551 0.965–2.492 0.070 1.372 0.837–2.249 0.210
Average working hours per day (reference category = 10 hours or more)0.796 0.466–1.359 0.403 0.795 0.456–1.385 0.418
Effort1.085 1.032–1.140 0.001 1.078 1.023–1.135 0.005
Rewards0.975 0.949–1.001 0.056 0.978 0.951–1.006 0.116
Effort*Rewards1.004 0.999–1.009 0.087 1.004 0.999–1.009 0.140
Upper tertile of overcommitment (reference category = present)2.113 1.409–3.169 <0.0011.589 1.015–2.485 0.043
Depressive (4)0.624 0.164–2.368 0.488
Cyclothymic (4)11.404 2.996–43.409 <0.001
Hyperthymic (4)2.605 0.887–7.647 0.081
Irritable (4)0.337 0.067–1.701 0.188
Anxious (4)6.409 1.484–27.684 0.013

(1)OR: odds ratio; Cl: confidence interval.
(2)Model 1: Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness of fit 𝜒 2 = 3 . 4 8 4 , df = 8, 𝑃 = 0 . 9 0 0 .
(3)Model 2: Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness of fit 𝜒 2 = 6 . 0 7 2 , df = 8, 𝑃 = 0 . 6 3 9 .
(4)Affective temperaments assessed by the TEMPS-A.