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Published in final edited form as: Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci. 2011 Nov;638(1):123–140. doi: 10.1177/0002716211415608

TABLE 2.

T-tests of Stressor Exposure and Distress by Flexibility (N = 47)

	Low flexibility N = 30		High flexibility N = 17

	M	SD	M	SD	t-test
Stressors
Arguments at work	0.13	0.17	0.05	0.09	t(45) = 2.33, p < .05
Tensions at work	0.12	0.14	0.09	0.13	t(45) = 0.63, ns
Employee/coworker stressors	0.03	0.08	0.06	0.11	t(45) = −0.75, ns
Hotel guest stressors	0.03	0.08	0.03	0.06	t(45) = 0.10, ns
Any work stressor	0.37	0.28	0.21	0.22	t(45) = 2.07, p < .05
Home stressors	0.06	0.09	0.04	0.10	t(45) = 0.60, ns
Stressor involving target child	0.06	0.11	0.02	0.05	t(45) = 1.44, ns
Mother Distress
Negative affect^a	0.17	0.13	0.13	0.13	t(45) = 0.93, ns
Physical symptoms	2.63	2.50	1.42	1.46	t(45) = 2.09, p < .05
Child Distress
Negative affect^a	0.20	0.18	0.22	0.17	t(45) = −0.50, ns
Physical symptoms	0.20	0.21	0.18	0.19	t(45) = 0.28, ns

Log transformed due to skewness and kurtosis.