Table 4.
Short grit scale among the participants
| Characteristic | Median (IQR) or Spearman’s ρ | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 0.337 | < 0.001a | |
| Marital Status | Married | 3.6 (1) | 0.040 b |
| Single | 3.4 (0.8) | ||
| Separated/divorced/widowed | 3.6 (0.3) | ||
| Number of children | 0.245 | 0.012 a | |
| Place where children live | Living in the same home | 3.6 (0.9) | 0.007 c |
| Living in another home | 4.1 (0.5) | ||
| City of practice | Amman | 3.5 (0.9) | 0.157 c |
| Other | 3.6 (1) | ||
| Position | Resident | 3.4 (0.8) | 0.026 c |
| Specialist | 3.6 (0.9) | ||
| Residency year | First | 3.1 (0.4) | 0.022 b |
| Second | 2.7 (0.5) | ||
| Third | 3.3 (0.7) | ||
| Fourth | 3.6 (1.1) | ||
| Fifth | 3.7 (0.6) | ||
| Specialty | Trauma | 3.8 (1) | 0.759 b |
| Arthroplasty | 3.5 (0.8) | ||
| Pediatric | 3.6 (0.4) | ||
| Upper Limb | 3.3 (1.1) | ||
| Sport | 3.5 (0.2) | ||
| Other | 3.7 (0.6) | ||
| Specialists’ years of experience | 0.331 | 0.002 a | |
| Work Sector | Public | 3.4 (0.7) | 0.094 b |
| Private | 3.8 (1.2) | ||
| University hospital | 3.6 (1) | ||
| Medical school | Jordanian medical school | 3.4 (0.8) | 0.309 c |
| Foreign medical school | 3.5 (1) | ||
| Orthopedics residency training | Jordan | 3.5 (0.8) | < 0.001 c |
| Outside | 4 (0.8) | ||
| Social/ personal stressor outside work | Not at all | 3.8 (1.2) | 0.283 b |
| Small amount | 3.6 (0.8) | ||
| Moderate amount | 3.4 (0.8) | ||
| Large amount | 3.5 (0.6) | ||
| Extreme | 3.1 (1) | ||
| Weekly working hours | 31–40 | 3.5 (0.9) | 0.749 b |
| 41–50 | 3.6 (1) | ||
| 51–60 | 3.5 (0.9) | ||
| 61–70 | 3.8 (0.8) | ||
| ≥ 71 | 3.4 (0.9) | ||
Note: a Spearman’s rank correlation, b Kruskal–Wallis H, c Mann–Whitney U test; Mann–Whitney U test and Kruskal–Wallis H test results were corrected using Bonferroni correction