Table 2.
Working condition factors and Psychological well-being
| Variables | Psychological well-being | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Poor | Fair | |||
| Number | Number (%) | Number (%) | p-value | ||
| Total | 19,879 | 7,200 (36.2) | 12,679 (63.8) | ||
| Job type | blue collar | 5,493 | 2,560 (46.6) | 2,933 (53.4) | <0.001* |
| service | 5,717 | 2,119 (37.1) | 3,598 (62.9) | ||
| white collar | 8,669 | 2,521 (29.1) | 6,148 (70.9) | ||
| Employment type | Contingent | 5,736 | 2,365 (41.2) | 3,371 (55.6) | <0.001** |
| Regular | 14,143 | 4,835 (34.2) | 9,308 (65.8) | ||
| Employment stabilitya | Unstable | 1,237 | 500 (40.4) | 737 (59.6) | 0.002** |
| Stable | 18,628 | 6,692 (35.9) | 11,936 (64.1) | ||
| Shift working | no | 18,293 | 6,583 (36.0) | 11,710 (64.0) | 0.022** |
| yes | 1,586 | 617 (38.9) | 969 (61.1) | ||
| Weekly working time | <40 h | 9,116 | 3,124 (34.3) | 5,992 (65.7) | <0.001* |
| 41–52 h | 6,247 | 2,307 (36.9) | 3,940 (63.1) | ||
| 53–60 h | 3,101 | 1,212 (39.1) | 1,889 (60.9) | ||
| >61 h | 1,415 | 557 (39.4) | 858 (60.6) | ||
| Smoking area statusa | no designated | 4,418 | 1,774 (40.2) | 2,644 (59.8) | <0.001* |
| in working area | 2,371 | 838 (35.3) | 1,533 (64.7) | ||
| outside working area | 9,435 | 3,160 (33.5) | 6,275 (66.5) | ||
| Physical violence | absence | 18,892 | 6,742 (35.7) | 12,150 (64.3) | <0.001** |
| presence | 987 | 458 (46.4) | 529 (53.6) | ||
| Discrimination | absence | 17,843 | 6,383 (35.8) | 11,460 (64.2) | <0.001** |
| presence | 2,036 | 817 (40.1) | 1,219 (59.9) | ||
*Obtained by a chi-squared test
**Obtained by a fisher’s exact test
aObtained data after missing data were excluded (Employment stability: 14 missing data, Smoking area status: 3655 missing data)