Table 4.
Discrepancies between the importance (A), being enabled (B) and being able to achieve (C) work values in workers with MS and workers from the general population
| Workers with MS (N = 163) | General working population (N = 163) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability aspects | (A-B)a | (A-C)a | (B-C)a | (A-B)a | (A-C)a | (B-C)a | ||||||
| Z | p | Z | p | Z | p | Z | p | Z | p | Z | p | |
| i. Use of knowledge and skills in your work | −5.2 | < 0.001** | − 5.6 | < 0.001** | − 2.5 | 0.009* | − 6.2 | < 0.001** | − 6.0 | < 0.001** | − 0.8 | 0.40 |
| ii. Development of knowledge and skills in your work | − 5.5 | < 0.001** | − 7.3 | < 0.001** | − 4.2 | < 0.001** | −6.9 | < 0.001** | − 7.1 | < 0.001** | − 0.2 | 0.85 |
| iii. Involvement in important decisions | −6.7 | < 0.001** | − 7.3 | < 0.001** | − 2.8 | 0.005* | − 6.7 | < 0.001** | −7.1 | < 0.001** | − 0.5 | 0.59 |
| iv. Building and maintaining meaningful contacts at work | −5.1 | < 0.001** | − 6.0 | < 0.001** | −2.6 | 0.008* | −5.3 | < 0.001** | − 5.8 | < 0.001** | − 1.4 | 0.16 |
| v. Setting your own goals in your work | −4.9 | < 0.001** | −5.7 | < 0.001** | −2.9 | 0.004* | −5.2 | < 0.001** | −5.6 | < 0.001** | −1.7 | 0.09 |
| vi. Having a good income | −5.6 | < 0.001** | −5.7 | < 0.001** | −1.3 | 0.184 | −7.6 | < 0.001** | −7.8 | < 0.001** | −1.9 | 0.05 |
| vii. Contributing to something valuable in your work | −4.6 | < 0.001** | −6.1 | < 0.001** | − 4.5 | < 0.001** | − 6.3 | < 0.001** | −6.8 | < 0.001** | −1.2 | 0.22 |
Note: Results of the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test to test discrepancies between importance (A), being enabled (B) and being able to achieve (C) work values are presented
aConflict scores
**Bonferroni corrected p values ≤ 0.001 were considered significant, *p values ≤ 0.01 were considered trend significant