Table 8.
Models of four professional groups; stepwise linear multiple regression with need for recovery as dependent variable and quantitative demands, work pace, cognitive demands, and emotional demands together with strategies of working more intensively to finish, skipping breaks to finish, lowering the quality of work, thinking of work when off work, taking work home to complete, influence, recovery opportunities, support from colleagues, support from supervisors, Quality of work, and age as predictor variables. Occupational characteristics of architects/engineers, carpenters, hospital nurses, and home care nurses, and a total group that included also other occupational characteristics
| Variables | Architects/civil engineers N = 218 |
Carpenters N = 150 |
Hospital nurses N = 520 |
Home care nurses N = 103 |
Total group N = 1215 |
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| Beta | P value | Beta | P value | Beta | P value | Beta | P value | Beta | P value | |
| Work demands | ||||||||||
| Quantitative demands | 0.240 | 0.001 | ||||||||
| Work pace | 0.158 | 0.021 | 0.120 | 0.002 | 0.114 | 0.000 | ||||
| Cognitive demands | − .071 | 0.007 | ||||||||
| Emotional demands | 0.082 | 0.033 | 0.101 | 0.000 | ||||||
| Effort-moderating resources | ||||||||||
| Influence | − .163 | 0.005 | ||||||||
| Support from colleagues | − .100 | 0.005 | − .063 | 0.006 | ||||||
| Support from supervisor | ||||||||||
| Quality of work | − .365 | 0.000 | − .265 | 0.000 | − .203 | 0.031 | − .255 | 0.000 | ||
| Cumulative effort-reversing resource | ||||||||||
| Recovery opportunities | − .138 | 0.030 | − .261 | 0.000 | − .144 | 0.000 | − .223 | 0.005 | − .235 | 0.000 |
| Compensating strategies | ||||||||||
| …work more intensively in order to finish | 0.274 | 0.000 | 0.067 | 0.008 | ||||||
| …skip breaks or lunch to finish | ||||||||||
| …lower the quality of my work in order to finish | 0.103 | 0.009 | 0.276 | 0.003 | 0.072 | 0.004 | ||||
| …think of my work even when I am off work | 0.258 | 0.000 | 0.186 | 0.004 | 0.251 | 0.000 | 0.301 | 0.000 | 0.219 | 0.000 |
| …take work home and complete in my spare time | − .097 | 0.011 | ||||||||
| Added in step 2 | ||||||||||
| Age | − .058 | 0.568 | − .043 | 0.604 | 0.38 | 0.394 | − .043 | 0.679 | − .043 | 0.134 |
| Model summary | ||||||||||
| Total adjusted R | 0.420 | 0.532 | 0.396 | 0.476 | 0.437 | |||||
| Change from step 1 to step 2 | ||||||||||
| F of regression equation | 32 159 | 43 339 | 430 441 | 23 751 | 94 636 | |||||
| Significance of F | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |||||