Table 6.
One-way ANOVAs for physical fitness impacts on burnout, psychological distress, and work role strain.
| Physical Fitness Impact Outcome | F | Impact Group Post Hoc Comparison |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative M (SD) | Neutral M (SD) | Positive M (SD) | ||
| Exhaustion | 17.3* | 13.9 (8.6)a | 10.7 (8.6)b | 11.8 (7.8)b |
| Cynicism | 10.2* | 11.7 (8.5)a | 9.2 (8.3)b | 10.6 (7.9)a,b |
| Professional efficacy | 5.3* | 25.2 (7.5)b | 26.8 (7.6)a | 25.5 (7.0)a,b |
| Psychological distress | 19.3* | 42.8 (23.0)a | 34.1 (22.2)b | 36.5 (20.2)b |
| Role overload | 3.4* | 3.7 (1.4)a | 3.4 (1.4)b | 3.6 (1.3)a,b |
| Role conflict | 3.6* | 3.7 (1.4)a | 3.5 (1.4)b | 3.7 (1.4)a,b |
| Role ambiguity | 9.0* | 3.4 (1.3)a | 3.0 (1.2)b | 3.3 (1.4)a |
| Aerobic exercise per week (min) | 11.6* | 95.0 (69.9)a | 102.2 (74.5)b | 120.9 (75.5)b |
Note: Overall descriptive statistics for aerobic exercise per week, M = 101.0, SD = 72.3.
ANOVA = analysis of variance.
a,bIndicate group means that are significantly different.
*p < .01. df = (2, 1270–1351).