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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Affect Disord. 2014 Jul 5;168:254–261. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.06.031

Table 3.

A comparison between the control and suicide-deceased group by impact from work

Work-related incidents Control (n = 112) Deceased (n = 63) p-value
New Job
    Had it happened? (Yes) 107
95.5%
61
96.8%
.676
Number of occurrences
    Mean (SD) 3.25 (1.94) 3.07 (2.33) .624
Impact
    Mean (SD) .01 (.95) −.02 (1.12) .892

Fired
    Had it happened? (Yes) 16
15%
12
20.3%
.375
Number of occurrences
    Mean (SD) 2.00 (1.57) 2.25 (2.44) .772
Impact
    Mean (SD) .20 (1.06) −.35 (.83) .199

In danger of losing job/demotion
    Had it happened? (Yes) 9
8.3%
19
31.1 %
< .001*
Number of occurrences
    Mean (SD) 1.29 (.49) 1.09 (.30) .307
Impact
    Mean (SD) .55 (1.10) −.29 (.83) .037*

Conflict with boss/colleagues
    Had it happened? (Yes) 41
38.3%
22
36.7%
.833
Number of occurrences .333
    Mean (SD) 4.55 (4.47) 3.00 (4.42)
Impact
    Mean (SD) .10 (.95) −.23 (1.10) .247

Changes in workplaces
    Had it happened? (Yes) 43
39.4%
24
38.7%
.924
Number of occurrences
    Mean (SD) 2.02 (1.28) 2.25 (2.27) .636
Impact
    Mean (SD) .29 (.92) −.55 (.94) .001*

Pay cut
    Had it happened? (Yes) 31
29.0%
7
11.5%
.009*
Number of occurrences .719
    Mean (SD) 1.67(1.80) 1.00 (N.A.)
Impact
    Mean (SD) .15 (.83) −.65 (1.46) .055

Pay freeze
    Had it happened? (Yes) 29
26.9%
5
8.2%
.004*
Number of occurrences
    Mean (SD) 1.17 (.60) 1.00 (.00) .693
Impact
    Mean (SD) .05 (.80) −.27 (1.91) .524

Resigning from job
    Had it happened? (Yes) 66
62.3%
25
41.0%
.008*
Number of occurrences
    Mean (SD) 2.67 (1.43) 2.83 (2.50) .721
Impact
    Mean (SD) .17 (.96) −.59 (.94) .004*

Overall acute impact
    Mean (SD) .07 (1.12) −.13 (.31) .169

Overall chronic impact
    Mean (SD) −.07 (.73) .36 (1.58) .016*

Note: Impact scores are standardized.

*

p < .05