Sense of Coherence and Personality Traits Related to Depressive State

Table 3

Multiple linear regression for depressive state.

Independent variables	Step 1			Step 2			Step 3
	Unstandardized β	95% CI	value	Unstandardized β	95% CI	value	Unstandardized β	95% CI	value
Age	−0.10	−0.17–−0.03	0.004	−0.04	−0.04–0.03	0.247	−0.02	−0.08–0.04	0.486
Overtime per week	0.15	0.04–0.26	0.008	0.08	0.08–0.05	0.121	0.07	−0.03–0.17	0.156
Job stressors
Quantitative job overload	0.27	−0.19–0.73	0.249	0.16	0.16–0.21	0.453	0.12	−0.30–0.53	0.583
Qualitative job overload	0.29	−0.18–0.77	0.224	0.09	0.09–0.22	0.699	0.06	−0.36–0.48	0.784
Physical demands	0.10	−0.71–0.91	0.807	0.15	0.15–0.37	0.693	0.18	−0.54–0.89	0.624
Job control	−0.17	−0.57–0.22	0.393	−0.11	−0.11–0.18	0.563	−0.07	−0.42–0.28	0.699
Interpersonal conflict	0.09	−0.27–0.45	0.632	−0.03	−0.03–0.17	0.854	0.03	−0.29–0.35	0.856
Poor physical environment	0.43	−0.26–1.13	0.218	0.39	0.39–0.32	0.223	0.47	−0.14–1.09	0.132
Suitable jobs	−0.75	−1.79–0.29	0.157	−0.25	−0.25–0.48	0.603	−0.09	−1.03–0.85	0.854
Intrinsic rewards	−0.94	−1.96–0.07	0.069	−0.63	−0.63–0.47	0.179	−0.80	−1.72–0.12	0.088
Buffering factors
Supervisor support	−0.13	−0.36–0.33	0.939	0.09	0.09–0.16	0.570	0.11	−0.20–0.42	0.492
Coworker support	−0.12	−0.48–0.23	0.490	−0.08	−0.08–0.16	0.624	−0.10	−0.41–0.22	0.559
Family and friends support	−0.11	−0.42–0.20	0.497	0.04	0.04–0.14	0.786	0.05	−0.23–0.33	0.727
Job satisfaction and life satisfaction	−1.34	−1.86–−0.81	<0.001	−0.77	−0.77–0.25	0.003	−0.76	−1.25–−0.28	0.002
Sense of coherence				−0.22	−0.22–0.03	<0.001	−0.18	−0.24–−0.12	<0.001
Personality
Extraversion							−0.04	−0.23–0.15	0.667
Agreeableness							0.09	−0.21–0.39	0.553
Conscientiousness							−0.02	−0.23–0.19	0.850
Neuroticism							0.49	0.26–0.72	<0.001
Openness							−0.03	−0.31–0.15	0.492
	0.62			0.71			0.73
^2	0.39			0.50			0.53
	13.45		<0.001	19.63		<0.001	16.56		<0.001