Table 4.
Explaining thoughts of leaving the profession among hospital employees – results of stepwise multiple linear regression analyses (aggregated and stratified)
| Dependent or outcome variable: Thinking of leaving the profession (ordinal scale from 1 ‘never’ to 5 ‘daily’) |
Caregivers & nurses (incl. midwives) | Physicians | All health professionals | Total hospital employees | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 882 | N = 235 | N = 1441 | N = 1840 | |||||
| Beta coeff. (β) | Beta coeff. (β) | Beta coeff. (β) | Beta coeff. (β) | |||||
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 1 | Step 2 | |
| Independent or exposure variables: | ||||||||
| Temporal workload (number of overtime hours per week 0–10+) | n.s. | −.09* | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | −.10*** | n.s. | −.11*** |
| Physical workload (sum score 0–20) | .12*** | n.s. | .15* | n.s. | .12*** | n.s. | .11*** | n.s. |
| Emotional stress (sum score 0–20) | .21*** | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | .17*** | n.s. | .18*** | n.s. |
| Mental stress (sum score 0–15) | .18*** | .08* | .29*** | .19* | .21*** | .10*** | .21*** | .09*** |
| Intervening or mediating variables: | ||||||||
| Effort-reward imbalance (ERI ratio) | – | .31*** | – | .36*** | – | .34*** | – | .34*** |
| Work-life imbalance (sum score 0–20) | – | .25*** | – | n.s. | – | .20*** | – | .19*** |
| Control variables: | ||||||||
| Sex (male) | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. |
| Age (< 25, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, 55+) | −.13*** | −.09** | n.s. | n.s. | −.10*** | −.11*** | −.11*** | −.11*** |
| Educational level (low, medium, high, very high) | – | – | – | – | n.s. | n.s. | −.06* | −.06* |
| Adjusted R square | .166 | .287 | .110 | .221 | .143 | .262 | .140 | .251 |
| No. cases in model | 776 | 715 | 204 | 187 | 1260 | 1168 | 1573 | 1450 |
*p ≤ .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001; n.s. = not significant (p > .05)