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Table 2.

Professional quality of life scale and subscales scores by job category. Data are presented as group mean ± SD. ^{^^^} p < 0.001 versus principal investigator; * p < 0.05, ^** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001 versus welfare officer and/or veterinarian; ^# p < 0.05, ^### p < 0.001 versus PhD students.

Job Category		Total Score	Compassion Satisfaction (CS)	Compassion Fatigue (CF)
Animal-Facility Personnel	Welfare officer and/or veterinarian	120.60 ± 14.23	61.13 ± 8.71	59.47 ± 7.93 ^{^^^}
Animal-Facility Personnel	Caretaker or technician	119.44 ± 16.92	60.08 ± 11.54 ^###	59.36 ± 8.11 ^{^^^}
Researchers	Principal investigator	122.77 ± 10.44	57.59 ± 7.92 *	65.17 ± 5.67
	Investigator	114.20 ± 13.88 **^{,^^^}	53.39 ± 9.22 ***^,#	60.82 ± 7.45 ^{^^^,#}
	Research technician	111.63 ± 18.32 **^{,^^^}	53.79 ± 8.96 ***^,#	57.84 ± 12.68 ^{^^^}
	Ph.D. student	106.63 ± 17.28 ***^,^{^^^}	50.03 ± 9.32 ***^{,^^^}	56.60 ± 10.93 ^{^^^}