. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2016 Oct;78(8):940–949. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000349

Table 1. Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of the Analytic Sample by Occupation (N = 480).

	White-Collar (n = 326)	Sales / Administrative Support (n = 93)	Blue-Collar (n = 61)	χ²
Characteristic

Mean (SD)

Mean age (SD)	42.2 (7.4)	44.1 (7.0)	43.8 (7.1)	5.6
Mean years of education (SD)	17.8 (2.7)^a,b	15.2 (2.3)^a	14.5 (1.8)^b	128.0^****
Mean BMI (SD)	26.4 (4.9)^a	28.6 (6.0)^a	28.1 (5.7)	12.5^**
Mean drinks per month (SD)	10.9 (14.5)	11.0 (21.6)	14.9 (24.5)	2.3
Mean systolic ABP (SD)	133.0 (11.9)^a	134.8 (11.8)	136.7 (10.1)^a	7.2^*
Mean diastolic ABP (SD)	80.4 (7.3)^a	81.2 (7.6)	82.8 (6.7)^a	6.3^*

% (n)

% Female (n)	50.9 (166)^a	66.7 (62)^a,b	41.0 (25)^b	11.1^**
% AfricanAmerican (n)	10.7 (35)^a,b	26.9 (25)^b	36.1 (22)^a	31.1^****
% current smokers (n)	9.5 (31)^a	12.9 (12)^b	34.4 (21)^a,b	34.5^****
% job strain (n)	16.9 (55)^a,b	36.6 (34)^b	36.1 (22)^a	22.4^****

Note. For omnibus tests,

p < .050,

^**

p < .010,

^***

p < .001,

^****

p < .0001.

For Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons, groups that share superscripts are significantly different from each other at p < .050.