Table 2.

The prevalence of emotional exhaustion by age, occupational class and psychosocial work factors (%)

	Symptoms of emotional exhaustion
	Women		Men
	No. of cases	%	No. of cases	%
Age (years)
40	172	19.3	37	19.2
45	187	19.4	45	21.0
50	213	22.4	47	20.5
55	296	26.8	55	19.4
60	127	25.0	35	21.2
		***		Ns.
Occupational class
Unskilled manuals	89	22.4	28	15.8
Skilled manuals	30	23.3	12	12.4
Routine non-manuals	349	18.8	21	19.1
Semi-professionals	205	24.3	44	19.2
Professionals	242	26.7	59	21.2
Managers	80	28.6	55	28.5
		***		Ns.
Job control
High	252	20.6	62	20.7
Rather high	205	18.9	57	18.1
Rather low	214	19.8	38	17.9
Low	324	31.6	62	24.0
		***		Ns.
Organizational justice
High	145	13.8	27	12.5
Rather high	228	17.6	56	15.8
Rather low	267	23.4	53	19.2
Low	355	38.4	83	35.0
		***		***
Bullying at workplace
Not at all	243	15.7	66	14.4
Sometimes	538	23.8	100	20.3
Repeatedly	159	43.7	34	42.5
Don't know	55	22.8	19	34.5
		***		***
Total N	4674		1145

** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 (χ²test).