Table 4.
Predictors of coping reactions to stress in nursing practitioners
| a) Predcitors | |||||
| Predictors | Dependent Variables | Mean Square |
F | Sig. | Partial Eta Squared |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Venting | 7.725 | 5.717 | .018 | .030 |
| Marital Status | Emotional Support | 5.383 | 3.884 | .050 | .021 |
| Residency | Positive Reframing | 10.332 | 9.750 | .002 | .051 |
| Smoking | Planning | 7.096 | 4.568 | .034 | .024 |
| Physical Activity | Venting | 5.377 | 3.980 | .048 | .021 |
| Sleeping Hours | Active Coping | 4.285 | 3.781 | .025 | .040 |
| Chronic Disease | Emotional Support | 7.369 | 5.317 | .022 | .028 |
| Perceived Stress | Denial | 22.618 | 9.707 | .002 | .051 |
| Emotional Support | 19.823 | 14.303 | <.001 | .073 | |
| Instrumental Support | 9.433 | 4.766 | .030 | .026 | |
| Self-Blame | 14.677 | 10.199 | .002 | .053 | |
| Self-Distraction | 22.159 | 13.354 | <.001 | .068 | |
| Humor | 26.124 | 9.830 | .002 | .051 | |
| Own Emotion Appraisal | No Factor | ||||
| Others Emotion Appraisal | Self-Blame | 10.837 | 7.531 | .007 | .040 |
| Own Emotion Regulation | No Factor | ||||
| Others Emotion Regulation | No Factor | ||||
| Emotion Utilization | Positive Reframing | 5.284 | 4.986 | .027 | .027 |
| Self-Blame | 10.318 | 7.170 | .008 | .038 | |
| Age | No Factor | ||||
| Family Member | Self-Blame | 5.608 | 3.897 | .050 | .021 |
| Behavioral Disengagement | 13.635 | 7.094 | .008 | .038 | |
| The predictors were shown in this table only. | |||||
| b) Pairwise comparisons (Bonferroni Correction) | |||||||
| Pairwise Comparisons | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dependent Variable | (I) nurse category | (J) nurse category | Mean
Difference (I-J) |
SE | Sig.b | 95% CI for Differenceb | |
| Lower Bound |
Upper Bound |
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| Venting | Male | Female | .439* | .183 | .018 | .077 | .800 |
| Emotional Support | Single | Married | −.356 | .181 | .050 | −713 | .000 |
| Positive Reframing | Urban | Rural | .580* | .186 | .002 | .213 | .946 |
| Planning | Smoker | Non-Smoker | −.644* | .302 | .034 | −1.239 | −.050 |
| Venting | Physically Active | Non-Physically Active | .443* | .222 | .048 | .005 | .881 |
| Active Coping | Less Than 6 Hours | 6-8 Hrs. sleeping | .040 | .179 | 1.000 | −.394 | .474 |
| Sleeping > 8 Hrs. | .630* | .250 | .038 | .026 | 1.234 | ||
| 6-8 Hours | Sleeping < 6 Hrs. | −.040 | .179 | 1.000 | −.474 | .394 | |
| Sleeping > 8 Hrs. | .590* | .229 | .032 | .038 | 1.142 | ||
| More Than 8 Hours | Sleeping < 6 Hrs. | −.630* | .250 | .038 | −1.234 | −.026 | |
| 6-8 Hrs. sleeping | −.590* | .229 | .032 | −1.142 | −.038 | ||
| Emotional Support | Chronic Disease | No Chronic Disease | −.955* | .414 | .022 | −1.772 | −.138 |
Based on estimated marginal means
*The mean difference is significant at the .05 level.
bAdjustment for multiple comparisons: Bonferroni.