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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Res Soc Work Pract. 2008 May;18(3):238–250. doi: 10.1177/1049731507310190

TABLE 2.

Linear Regressions Predicting Secondary Trauma and Job Burnout Among New York City Social Workers Following September 11 Attacks

Secondary Trauma (log)
Job Burnout (log)
Independent Variablesa B SE β B SE β
Gender (female) .03 .08 .03 −.02 .08 −.02
Race (White) .16 .10 .11 .15 .11 .09
Marital status (married) −.05 .07 −.05 −.10 .07 −.09
Years prof. counselor −.00 .00 −.04 −.01 .00 −.10
Negative life events .04 .03 .10 .09 .03 .20**
General social support −.03 .05 −.04 −.01 .05 −.01
Sense of mastery −.06 .05 −.08 −.21 .05 −.26***
World Trade Center recovery involve .08 .02 .26*** .01 .02 .04
World Trade Center counseling involve .01 .02 .02 −.00 .02 −.00
Info to work effectively −.14 .05 −.19** −.10 .06 −.12
Constant 1.13 1.91
R2 .15 .20

NOTE: N = 219.

a

Gender, race, and marital status are used as binary variables in regression analyses. All other variables are used as continuous variables.

p < .10.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.