Table 4.

The relationship between happiness and demographic and organizational characteristics

Demographic and organizational variables		Happiness mean±SDP value	P value	Demographic and organizational variables		Happiness mean±SD	P value
Type of employment	Formal	62.9±11.3	P=0.004*	Sex	Male	64.4±13.6	P=0.87*8
	Temporary	64.4±11.8			Female	64.1±11.2
	Contractual	69.0±9.8
Second job	Yes	63.9±11.2	P=0.12**	Marital status	Married	64.0±11.5	P=0.67*
	No	67.6±14.4			Single/divorced/widowed	64.6±11.4
Hospital ward	Intensive care	63.3±10.9	P=0.71**	Education	Associate degree	73.0±15.6	P=0.55*
	Clinic	62.7±11.2			BSc	64.1±11.5
					MSc	64.4±11.7
	Psychiatry or hematology	64.9±14.7
	Pediatrics/ surgery/internal	65.0±10.7
Operating room	64.3±14.3
Nurses’ perception of own health status (compared to peers)	Better	69.9±14.9	P<0.001*	Income	Insufficient	62.8±12.1	P=0.17*
	Similar	65.5±10.7			Rather insufficient	64.5±10.5
	Worse	60.7±10.3			Sufficient or high	66.4±13.2
History of illness	No	67.3±11.5	P<0.001*	Whom do you live with?	Spouse	63.9±11.2	P=0.73**
	Joint pain	65.3±10.2			Parents	64.7±11.3
	One chronic diseases	64.2±8.5			Alone or with relatives	65.3±13.6
	More than one disease	57.8±10.7			No children	65.4±11.3
Physical exercise	Less than 30 minutes every other day	63.3±11.7	P=0.21*	Number of children	One	63.0±11.4	P=0.2**
	30 minutes every other day	65.3±10.0			Two or more	63.5±11.7
	Daily exercise	66.2±14.9
Mass body Index (BMI)	Underweight (<18.5) or normal (18.25-24.9)	63.8±11.8	P=0.65*	Work shift	Morning-fixed	64.8±11.9	P=0.59**
	25-29.9	64.3±10.4			Afternoon/nigh-fixed or rotating	64.0±11.4
	Obese (30 or above	65.7±13.6			Nurse	63.9±11.1	P=0.005**
					Head nurse or supervisor	69.4±13.8
Sleeping state	Sufficient	65.1±11.3	P=0.33**	Job Position	Age	35.9±7.5	P=0.07
	Insufficient	63.7±11.5			Years of employment	11.8±7.1	P=0.06

^*One way ANOVA,

^**t-test