Table 4.
Means (SD) of life satisfaction in female and male physicians.
| Female physicians | Male physicians | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIFE SATISFACTION | Without children (n = 191) Mean (SD) |
With children (n = 101) Mean (SD) |
Total (n = 292) Mean (SD) |
Without children (n = 177) Mean (SD) |
With children (n = 110) Mean (SD) |
Total (n = 287) Mean (SD) |
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| Friends | 3.58 (1.04) | 3.82 (1.09) | 3.66 (1.06) | 3.48 (1.07) | 3.34 (1.12) | 3.43 (1.08) | |||
| Leisure activities | 3.05 (1.05) | 3.12 (1.03) | 3.07 (1.04) | 3.05 (1.03) | 2.64 (1.08) | 2.89 (1.07) | |||
| Health | 3.75 (1.05) | 3.83 (1.11) | 3.78 (1.07) | 3.84 (1.01) | 3.66 (1.12) | 3.77 (1.06) | |||
| Income | 3.50 (1.07) | 3.45 (1.10) | 3.48 (1.08) | 3.17 (1.16) | 3.15 (1.20) | 3.16 (1.77) | |||
| Work | 3.49 (0.98) | 3.57 (1.00) | 3.52 (0.97) | 3.54 (0.95) | 3.75 (0.97) | 3.62 (0.96) | |||
| Living condition | 4.12 (0.88) | 4.10 (0.97) | 4.11 (0.91) | 4.03 (0.97) | 4.04 (0.85) | 4.03 (0.92) | |||
| Family life | 3.38 (1.26) | 4.46 (0.81) | 3.76 (1.23) | 3.45 (1.12) | 4.32 (0.96) | 3.79 (1.14) | |||
| Partnership/Sexuality | 3.64 (1.27) | 3.73 (1.17) | 3.67 (1.23) | 3.55 (1.34) | 3.65 (1.07) | 3.59 (1.24) | |||
| Analyses of variance | Gender | Children | Gender × Children | ||||||
| multivariate | F(8,559) | p | partial eta2 | F(8,559) | p | partial eta2 | F(8,559) | p | partial eta2 |
| 3.73 | <0.001 | 0.05 | 21.71 | <0.001 | 0.24 | 1.50 | 0.153 | 0.02 | |
| univariate | F(1,566) | p | partial eta2 | F(1,566) | p | partial eta2 | F(1,566) | p | partial eta2 |
| Friends | 9.23 | 0.002 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 0.675 | <0.01 | 4.09 | 0.044 | 0.01 |
| Leisure activities | 6.23 | 0.013 | 0.01 | 3.86 | 0.050 | 0.01 | 6.43 | 0.011 | 0.01 |
| Health | 0.14 | 0.711 | <0.01 | 0.41 | 0.523 | <0.01 | 1.83 | 0.177 | <0.01 |
| Income | 9.87 | 0.002 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 0.673 | <0.01 | 0.03 | 0.872 | <0.01 |
| Work | 1.88 | 0.171 | <0.01 | 2.98 | 0.085 | <0.01 | 0.64 | 0.426 | <0.01 |
| Living condition | 0.90 | 0.342 | <0.01 | 0.01 | 0.952 | <0.01 | 0.03 | 0.873 | <0.01 |
| Family life | 0.12 | 0.734 | <0.01 | 104.94 | <0.001 | 0.16 | 1.26 | 0.262 | <0.01 |
| Partnership/Sexuality | 0.61 | 0.434 | <0.01 | 0.76 | 0.384 | <0.01 | 0.01 | 0.958 | <0.01 |
Results of multivariate and univariate analyses (N = 579)