Long-Term Effectiveness of a Stress Management Intervention at Work: A 9-Year Follow-Up Study Based on a Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial in Male Managers

Table 1

Comparison of sociodemographic characteristics as well as work stress and depressive symptoms measured at preintervention (2006) between MAN-GO participants () and SOEP participants ().

Variable	MAN-GO participants	SOEP participants	for difference
Sociodemography
Mean age	40.60 ± 6.58	41.60 ± 7.44	0.33
Partner (versus no partner)	86 (91.49%)	78 (82.98%)	0.08
Low education (versus medium or high)	55 (58.51%)	52 (55.32%)	0.66
Work stress
- ratio	0.74 ± 0.23	0.75 ± 0.40	0.81
(i) Effort	8.67 ± 1.78	8.39 ± 3.12	0.46
(ii) Reward	28.65 ± 4.93	28.62 ± 5.74	0.97
Overcommitment	13.98 ± 3.64	14.17 ± 3.21	0.71
Mental health
Depressive symptoms	48.66 ± 8.21	48.86 ± 7.82	0.87

Means and standard deviations (SDs) for continuous variables and absolute numbers and per cent for categorical variables. Differences were examined by -test for continuous variables and Chi-square test for categorical variables.