Table 4.
Legal profession and mental health.
| Professionalism/Individual | Financial Worth/Availability | No Value/No Feedback | Chi-Square | p-Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | |||
| Does your workplace foster, reward, or normalize maladaptive behaviors? | 183.54 | 0.000 | ||||||
| Yes | 117 | 9.6% a | 126 | 23.4% b | 56 | 28.3% b | ||
| No | 757 | 62.1% a | 188 | 34.9% b | 50 | 25.3% c | ||
| Unsure | 345 | 28.3% a | 224 | 41.6% b | 92 | 46.5% b | ||
| Total N | 1219 | 538 | 198 | |||||
| Has your time in the legal profession been detrimental to your mental health? | 88.54 | 0.000 | ||||||
| Yes | 293 | 24.0% a | 221 | 41.1% b | 93 | 47.2% b | ||
| No | 696 | 57.1% a | 212 | 39.4% b | 66 | 33.5% b | ||
| Unsure | 230 | 18.9% a | 105 | 19.5% a | 38 | 19.3% a | ||
| Total N | 1219 | 538 | 197 | |||||
| Has your time in the legal profession caused your use of alcohol and/or other drugs to increase? | 20.63 | 0.000 | ||||||
| Yes | 157 | 12.9% a | 112 | 20.8% b | 31 | 15.7% a,b | ||
| No | 972 | 79.7% a | 383 | 71.1% b | 147 | 74.2% a,b | ||
| Unsure | 91 | 7.5% a | 44 | 8.2% a | 20 | 10.1% a | ||
| Total N | 1220 | 539 | 198 | |||||
| Are you considering leaving, or have you left, the profession due to mental health, burnout, or stress? | 80.95 | 0.000 | ||||||
| Yes | 188 | 15.4% a | 144 | 26.7% b | 74 | 37.4% c | ||
| No | 970 | 79.6% a | 354 | 65.7% b | 106 | 53.5% c | ||
| Unsure | 61 | 5.0% a | 41 | 7.6% a | 18 | 9.1% a | ||
| Total N | 1219 | 539 | 198 | |||||
Within each row, each subscript letter denotes column proportions that did not differ significantly at the 0.05 level according to Pearson Chi-Square tests.