Table 3.
Chi-square test of association between employer type and COVID-19 related variables.
| Variables | Employer | p-Value | Chi- Square |
Effect Size Phi/Cramer’s V |
Overall | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School Board | Other Employment | |||||
| Fearful contracting coronavirus | ||||||
| No | 6 (7.4%) | 7 (8.5%) | 1.000 | 0.071 | 0.021 | 13 (8.0%) |
| Yes | 75 (92.6%) | 75 (91.5%) | 150 (92.0%) | |||
| Fearful for close friends/family contracting coronavirus | ||||||
| No | 3 (3.7%) | 3 (3.7%) | 1.000 | 0.000 | 0.001 | 6 (3.7%) |
| Yes | 78 (96.3%) | 79 (96.3%) | 157% (96.3%) | |||
| Any close friends/family member sick from coronavirus | ||||||
| No | 17 (21.0%) | 27 (33.8%) | 0.079 | 3.301 | 0.143 | 44 (27.3%) |
| Yes | 64 (79.0%) | 53 (66.3%) | 117 (72.7%) | |||
| Had to self-isolate or self-quarantine due to COVID-19 symptoms | ||||||
| No | 27 (33.3%) | 35 (43.2%) | 0.258 | 1.672 | 0.102 | 62 (38.3%) |
| Yes | 54 (66.7%) | 46 (56.8%) | 100 61.7%) | |||
| Frequency of watching images of sick/dead COVID-19 people | ||||||
| Daily | 39 (48.1%) | 35 (42.7%) | 74 (45.4%) | |||
| <Daily | 32 (39.5%) | 36 (43.9%) | 0.802 | 0.493 | 0.055 | 68 (41.7%) |
| I did not watch the TV images of the pandemic | 10 (12.3%) | 11 (13.4%) | 21 (12.9%) | |||
| Frequency of reading newspaper/internet article related to pandemic | ||||||
| Daily | 48 (59.3%) | 50 (61.0%) | 98 (60.1%) | |||
| <Daily | 31 (38.3%) | 31 (37.8%) | 0.951 | 0.368 | 0.048 | 62 (38.0%0 |
| I did not read newspaper and internet articles related to the pandemic | 2 (2.5%) | 1 (1.2%) | 3 (1.8%) | |||
| Lost job due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||
| No | 73 (90.1%) | 74 (90.2%) | 1.000 | 0.001 | 0.002 | 147 (90.2%) |
| Yes | 8 (9.9%) | 8 (9.8%) | 16 (9.8%) | |||
| Support from family/friends since pandemic | ||||||
| Yes. I have had absolute support | 38 (47.5%) | 35 (42.7%) | 73 (45.1%) | |||
| Yes. I have had some support | 24 (30.0%) | 28 (34.1%) | 0.646 | 1.734 | 0.103 | 52 (32.1%) |
| Yes. But only limited support | 9 (11.3%) | 13 (15.9%) | 22 (13.6%) | |||
| Not at all | 9 (11.3%) | 6 (7.3%) | 15 (9.3%) | |||
| Support from Government of Canada since pandemic | ||||||
| Yes. I have had absolute support | 14 (17.9%) | 8 (10.0%) | 22 (13.9%) | |||
| Yes. I have had some support | 15 (19.2%) | 11 (13.8%) | 26 (16.5%) | |||
| Yes. But only limited support | 13 (16.7%) | 11 (13.8%) | 24 (15.2%) | |||
| Not at all | 36 (46.2%) | 50 (62.5%) | 0.201 | 4.673 | 0.172 | 24 (15.2%) |
| Support from Government of Alberta since pandemic | ||||||
| Yes. I have had absolute support | 12 (15.2%) | 4 (5.0%) | 16 (10.1%) | |||
| Yes. I have had some support | 14 (17.7%) | 9 (11.3%) | 23 (14.5%) | |||
| Yes. But only limited support | 9 (11.4%) | 10 (12.5%) | 0.078 | 6.807 | 0.207 | 19 (11.9%) |
| Not at all | 44 (55.7) | 57 (71.3%) | 101 (63.5%) | |||
| Support from employer since pandemic | ||||||
| Yes. I have had absolute support | 37 (46.3%) | 39 (48.1%) | 76 (47.2%) | |||
| Yes. I have had some support | 29 (36.3%) | 15 (18.5%) | 44 (27.3%) | |||
| Yes. But only limited support | 11 (13.8%) | 13 (16.0%) | 0.007 | 11.786 | 0.271 | 24 (14.9%) |
| Not at all | 3 (3.8%) | 14 (17.3%) | 17 (10.6%) | |||