Table 1 Baseline characteristics by gender and stress profiles as defined by the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire
From: Occupational stress and the risk of turnover: a large prospective cohort study of employees in Japan
Men (n = 3892) | Women (n = 5765) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High stress | Others | p-value | High stress | Others | p-value | |||||
No. of participants | 187 | 3705 | 1007 | 4758 | ||||||
Age, years | ||||||||||
20–29 | 25 | (13.4) | 748 | (20.2) | 0.004 | 477 | (47.4) | 2482 | (52.2) | 0.005 |
30–39 | 72 | (38.5) | 1042 | (28.1) | 291 | (28.9) | 1339 | (28.1) | ||
40–49 | 90 | (48.1) | 1915 | (51.7) | 239 | (23.7) | 937 | (19.7) | ||
Length of service, years | ||||||||||
0–4 | 31 | (16.6) | 596 | (16.1) | 0.221 | 375 | (37.2) | 1969 | (41.4) | 0.018 |
5–9 | 36 | (19.3) | 548 | (14.8) | 316 | (31.4) | 1306 | (27.5) | ||
≥ 10 | 120 | (64.2) | 2561 | (69.1) | 316 | (31.4) | 1483 | (31.2) | ||
Job type | ||||||||||
Sales | 93 | (49.7) | 2130 | (57.5) | 0.097 | 510 | (50.7) | 2644 | (55.6) | < 0.001 |
Claims service | 42 | (22.5) | 662 | (17.9) | 378 | (37.5) | 1251 | (26.3) | ||
Administrative | 52 | (27.8) | 913 | (24.6) | 119 | (11.8) | 863 | (18.1) | ||
Position | ||||||||||
Staff | 132 | (70.6) | 2231 | (60.2) | < 0.001 | 922 | (91.6) | 4436 | (93.2) | 0.007 |
Manager | 39 | (20.9) | 1413 | (38.1) | 4 | (0.4) | 45 | (1.0) | ||
Temporary employee | 16 | (8.6) | 61 | (1.7) | 81 | (8.0) | 277 | (5.8) | ||