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Table 2.

Correlations between demographics, stress, burnout, quality of life, and self-compassion

	Sample	Age	Experience	Sex	Stress	Burnout	Quality of life	Self-compassion
Age	Nurses	–	.83^**	.03	− .08^*	− .23^**,c	.02	.17^**
	Physicians	–	.97^**	− .08	− .09^*	− .22^**,c	− .03	.22^**
	Medical students	–	.33^**	− .03	− .06	− .09^{a, b}	.00	.14^**
Experience	Nurses	.83^**	–	.04	− .11^**	− .22^**,b	.05	.14^**
	Physicians	.97^**	–	− .08	− .07^c	− .22^**,b	− .03^c	.22^**
	Medical students	.33^**	–	− .04	− .18^**,b	− .10^a,b	.10^*,b	.15^**
^#Sex	Nurses	.03	.04	–	− .03^{b, c}	.00^b	.05^b,c	− .07^*
	Physicians	− .06	− .07	–	.16^**,a	.17^**,a,c	− .13^**,a,c	− .10^*
	Medical students	− .04	− .04	–	.10^*,a	.04^b	.17^{**a, b}	− .11^*
Stress	Nurses	− .08^*	− .11^**	− .02	–	.51^**	− .11^**,b,c	− .06^b
	Physicians	− .09^*	− .07	.16^**	–	.55^**	− .30^**,a	− .20^**,a
	Medical students	− .06	− .18^**	.10	–	.52^**	− .31^**,a	− .21^**
Burnout	Nurses	− .23^**	− .22^**	− .01	.51^**	–	− .36^**,c	− .36^**,b
	Physicians	− .22^**	− .22^**	.16^**	.55^**	–	− .43^**	− .45^**,a
	Medical students	− .09	− .10	.03	.52^**	–	− .45^**,a	− .40^**
Quality of life	Nurses	.02	.05	.05	− .11^**	− .36^**	–	.43^**,b
	Physicians	− .03	− .03	− .14^**	− .30^**	− .43^**	–	.32^**,a
	Medical students	.00	.10^*	.15^**	− .31^**	− .45^**	–	.38^**
Self-compassion	Nurses	.17^**	.14^**	− .08^*	− .06	− .36^**	.43^**	–
	Physicians	.22^**	.22^**	− .10^*	− .20^**	− .45^**	.32^**	–
	Medical students	.14^**	.15^**	− .12^*	− .21^**	− .40^**	.39^**	–

*p < 0.05

**p < 0.01

^#Spearman’s Rank-Order correlation; sex coded such that 0 = male and 1 = female

^aDifferent from nurses

^bDifferent from physicians

^cDifferent from medical students at p < .05, using Fisher r-to-z transformation