TABLE 3.

Univariate analysis of nurse‐patient disputes

Variable		Dispute				χ2/t	p‐value
		No		Yes
Gender		n	%	n	%
Male	(n = 448)	399	89.1	49	10.9	2.177	0.140
Female	(n = 345)	318	92.2	27	7.8
Age (years)
<45	(n = 430)	390	90.7	40	9.3	5.909	0.052
46 ~ 59	(n = 164)	141	86.0	23	14.0
≥60	(n = 199)	186	93.5	13	6.5
Marriage
Married	(n = 653)	588	90.0	65	10.0	0.661	0.719
Unmarried	(n = 107)	99	92.5	8	7.5
Divorced or widowed	(n = 33)	30	90.9	3	9.1
Education
Illiteracy	(n = 82)	78	95.1	4	4.9	3.309	0.346
Primary school	(n = 174)	159	91.4	15	8.6
Middle school	(n = 320)	284	88.8	36	11.3
University or above	(n = 217)	196	90.3	21	9.7
Monthly household income (CNY)
<5,000	(n = 344)	324	94.2	20	5.8	9.965	0.002
≥5,000	(n = 449)	393	87.5	56	12.5
Humanistic quality
Moral quality		35.83 ± 4.36		32.12 ± 6.23		5.068	0.000
Cultural quality		25.82 ± 5.97		24.64 ± 6.65		1.475	0.144
Legal quality		22.90 ± 3.63		20.96 ± 4.43		3.696	0.000
Aesthetic quality		14.53 ± 2.80		12.80 ± 3.98		3.694	0.000
Psychological quality		37.72 ± 5.43		33.47 ± 7.28		4.945	0.000
Total score of humanistic quality		136.81 ± 19.72		124.00 ± 26.97		4.028	0.000
Recognition of nursing work		25.45 ± 2.52		24.17 ± 4.42		2.490	0.015
Personality traits
Neuroticism		23.36 ± 7.58		27.33 ± 7.31		−4.352	0.000
Conscientiousness		37.43 ± 6.14		35.91 ± 6.43		2.051	0.041
Agreeableness		38.14 ± 5.90		34.18 ± 6.75		5.475	0.000
Openness		31.97 ± 5.85		31.41 ± 5.68		0.800	0.424
Extroversion		31.65 ± 6.29		30.04 ± 6.80		2.103	0.036

5,000 CNY was approximately equivalent to US$736.5.