Table 5.
Correlation between spouses’ willingness to listen to work-related problems and emotional exhaustion*
| Spouses’ willingness to listen frequency | Emotional exhaustion subscale | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Medium | High | ||||
| Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
| Never | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Once in a while | 2 | 8.7% | 2 | 5.0% | 3 | 7.7% |
| Sometimes | 4 | 17.4% | 8 | 20.0% | 9 | 23.1% |
| Frequently | 8 | 34.8% | 18 | 45.0% | 10 | 25.6% |
| Always | 9 | 39.1% | 12 | 30.0% | 17 | 43.6% |
| Total | 23 | 100% | 40 | 100% | 39 | 100% |
* Chi square test, p = 0.71.