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 4

Correlation coefficients of independent and dependent variables (n=728)⁽¹⁾.

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)
(1) GHQ-12^(2)	1
(2) Effort	0.239***
(3) Rewards	−0.180***	−0.518***
(4) Overcommitment	0.272***	0.467***	−0.384***
(5) Upper tertile of  overcommitment^(3)	0.242***	0.428***	−0.341***	0.846***
(6)   Depressive ^(4)	0.202***	0.233***	−0.276***	0.438***	0.408***
(7)   Cyclothymic ^(4)	0.293***	0.210***	−0.169***	0.328***	0.295***	0.501***
(8) Hyperthymic ^(4)	0.101**	0.049 n.s.	−0.007 n.s.	−0.061 n.s.	−0.032 n.s.	−0.111**	0.226***
(9)   Irritable ^(4)	0.204***	0.225***	−0.213***	0.334***	0.305 ***	0.421***	0.686***	0.206***
(10)   Anxious ^(4)	0.282***	0.287***	−0.246***	0.531***	0.459 ***	0.582***	0.622***	0.020 n.s.	0.640***	1

⁽¹⁾Spearman correlation coefficient. Symbols indicate level of significance: *𝑃<0.05; **𝑃<0.01; ***𝑃<0.001.
⁽²⁾1 = when the cut-off point of the GHQ-12 was 3/4, those who scored 4 or more; 0 = those who scored 3 or less.
⁽³⁾1 = those who are scored in the upper 30th percentile; 0 = others.
⁽⁴⁾Affective temperaments assessed by the TEMPS-A.