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 3
Results of coefficient of association between each control variables and GHQ-12 ().
Variables
GHQ-12(1)
Low risk
High risk
Coefficient of association(2)
value
()
()
Sex
Female
81
216
−0.051
0.170
Male
138
293
Marital status
Single
75
147
0.053
0.149
Married
144
362
Education
Junior college or vocational school equivalency degree
121
280
0.002
0.952
University graduate or higher
98
229
Type of job
Clerical post
27
54
0.061(3)
0.258
Computer technical support
191
445
Managerial post
1
10
Shift work
Shift work with night shifts
79
173
0.020
0.588
Without night shifts
140
336
Average working hours per day
Nine hours or less
190
414
0.066
0.074
Ten hours or more
29
95
Frequency of working on days off per month
None
188
393
7.084
0.008
More than one day per month
31
116
(1)High risk is those who scored 4 or more when the cut-off point of the GHQ-12 was 3/4. Low risk is those who scored 3 or less.
(2)Phi coefficient.
(3)Cramer's measure of association.
