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. 2020 Jun 26;11:1482. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01482

TABLE 1.

Variable table.

Variable/instrument Content of the instrument Data type
Primary outcome variables
(1) Demographics
◆ Self-report items
Age, gender, marital status, family composition, education and professional qualification, religious belief Ordinal and Nominal
(2) Work burnout
◆ Copenhagen Burnout Inventory-Chinese Version (Fong et al., 2014)
19-item self-report scale with 3 sub-scales: personal burnout, work-related burnout, and client-related burnout Interval
(3) Work engagement
◆ C-UWES (Fong and Ng, 2012)
9-item self-report scale with 3 factors: Vigor, Dedication, and Absorption Interval
Secondary outcome variables
(1) Multiple somatic symptoms
◆ Physical Distress subscale of the Body-Mind-Spirit Well-Being Inventory (Ng et al., 2005)
14-item self-report scale Interval
(2) Positive affect
◆ Positive Affect subscale of the Body-Mind-Spirit Well-Being Inventory (Ng et al., 2005)
8-item self-report scale Interval
(3) Negative affect
◆ Negative Affect subscale of the Body-Mind-Spirit Well-Being Inventory (Ng et al., 2005)
11-item self-report scale Interval
(4) Daily spiritual experience
◆ Chinese Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (Ng et al., 2009a)
16-item self-report scale Interval
(5) Collective psychological ownership
◆ Chinese Collective psychological ownership Scale (Ng and Su, 2018)
7-item self-report scale Interval
(6) Worker behavior
◆ Self-report items
Overtime hours, sick days taken off from work and injuries at work in the past month Interval and ordinal