Table 5.

Psychosocial job stressors and self-rated health, male doctors, random and fixed effect regression models, adjusted for all variables, MABEL, 2001 to 2008

	Random effects model			Fixed effect model
	Obs = 12,123, ppl = 5130.			Obs = 854, ppl = 239.
	OR	95% CI	p value	OR	95% CI	p value
Job demands	1			1
(1-low to 4-high)	1.58	1.33, 1.87	< 0.001	1.38	1.08, 1.78	0.009
Lack of social support	1			1
(1-low to 4-high)	1.05	0.92, 1.19	0.508	1.01	0.84, 1.22	0.882
Job insecurity	1			1
(1-low to 4-high)	1.06	0.90, 1.25	0.454	0.92	0.71, 1.20	0.547
Job control	1			1
(1-low to 4-high)	1.48	1.27, 1.72	< 0.001	1.31	1.05, 1.64	0.016
Rewards at work	1			1
(1-low to 4-high)	1.29	1.10, 1.51	0.002	1.04	0.82, 1.32	0.748
Work-life imbalance	1			1
(1-low to 4-high)	2.26	1.78, 1.70	< 0.001	1.75	1.27, 2.41	0.001
Family restrictions	1			1
(1-low to 4-high)	1.41	1.17, 1.71	< 0.001	1.09	0.82, 1.44	0.566
Workplace aggression
No	1			1
Yes	1.06	0.73, 4.54	0.775	1.07	0.76, 1.51	0.690
Working hours
35–40	1			1
Under 35	2.11	1.27, 3.54	0.01	1.13	0.52, 2.47	0.746
Over 40	0.81	0.57, 1.16	0.254	1.2	0.73, 1.99	0.479
Age	1.23	1.00, 1.51	0.051	1.03	0.63, 1.69	0.897
On call working hours
No	1			1
Yes	0.98	.69, 1.39	0.915	0.98	0.57, 1.70	0.95
Medical specialisation
GP	1
Specialist	0.43	0.29, 0.64	< 0.001
Hospital non-specialist	0.5	0.24, 1.03	0.059
Specialist-in-training	0.69	0.38, 1.25	0.219
Partner/spouse
No	1			1
Yes	0.75	0.55, 1.01	0.062	0.67	0.23, 1.97	0.471
Presence of children
No	1			1
Yes	0.74	0.46, 1.19	0.214	0.66	0.18, 2.37	0.525

Notes: controls for cohort, year, and year medical degree was completed. Average waves included was 2.4 in the random effects model and 3.6 in the fixed effect model. OR = Odds Ratio; 95% CI = Confidence Intervals with 95% significance; p value = statistical significance set at 95%