Research Article

Consequences of Job Insecurity on the Psychological and Physical Health of Greek Civil Servants

Table 2

Scores for all scales used concerning psychological and physical health and social support.

Investigation groupControl group 1Control group 2
University office workers in labor mobilityUniversity office workers not at riskHospital office workers not at risk
Median (interquartile range)

PSS-1027.0 (4.5)8.5 (5.75)6.5 (11.5)<0.001
HADSA16.0 (3.75)4.0 (4.5)3.5 (5.25)<0.001
HADSD10.0 (4.0)2.0 (1.75)2.0 (3.0)<0.001
PANAS PA28.0 (7.5)41.0 (5.75)44.0 (6.25)<0.001
PANAS NA27.0 (8.75)15.5 (3.0)17.0 (5.0)<0.001
MSPSS5.79 (1.15)6.33 (1.02)6.42 (1.29)0.008
DQ2.7 (2.1)2.1 (1.05)2.45 (1.0)NS
PILL4.23 (2.52)1.1 (0.39)1.15 (0.5)<0.001
MS2.67 (2.13)1.08 (1.0)1.0 (0.67)<0.001

Kruskal Wallis test.
For scale DQ group sizes are 27, 26, and 22, respectively.
NS: nonsignificant.