Table 1.
Overview of descriptive therapist data and sex differences
| Total N = 427 | Female therapists n = 293 | Male therapists n = 134 | Statistical difference U/χ2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M/n | SD/% | M/n | SD/% | M/n | SD/% | p | rc/V | |
| Age (years) | 53.9 | 10.9 | 52.7 | 11.0 | 56.5 | 10.3 | < .001 | .20 |
| Experience (years) | 22.8 | 10.1 | 21.2 | 9.9 | 26.1 | 9.8 | < .001 | .28 |
| Profession | < .001 | .21 | ||||||
| Medicine | 146 | 34.2 | 81 | 27.6 | 65 | 48.5 | ||
| Psychology | 269 | 63.0 | 205 | 70.0 | 64 | 47.8 | ||
| Other | 12 | 2.8 | 7 | 2.4 | 5 | 3.7 | ||
| Patients | .275 | .08 | ||||||
| Adult | 272 | 63.7 | 181 | 61.8 | 91 | 67.9 | ||
| Child & youth | 65 | 15.2 | 44 | 15.0 | 21 | 15.7 | ||
| Both | 90 | 21.1 | 68 | 23.2 | 22 | 16.4 | ||
| Work forma | .038 | .13 | ||||||
| Employed (practice) | 58 | 14.6 | 47 | 17.4 | 11 | 8.7 | ||
| Employed (institution) | 80 | 20.2 | 57 | 21.1 | 23 | 18.3 | ||
| Independent (practice) | 258 | 65.2 | 16 | 61.5 | 92 | 71.0 | ||
| Working city size (population)b | .391 | .10 | ||||||
| ≤ 5000 | 23 | 5.4 | 17 | 5.8 | 6 | 4.5 | ||
| 5001–10,000 | 27 | 8.7 | 30 | 10.3 | 7 | 5.3 | ||
| 10,001–40,000 | 121 | 28.5 | 83 | 28.4 | 38 | 28.6 | ||
| 40,001–100,000 | 73 | 17.2 | 51 | 17.5 | 22 | 16.5 | ||
| ≥ 100,001 | 171 | 40.2 | 111 | 38.0 | 60 | 45.1 | ||
| Language region | .407 | .07 | ||||||
| Swiss German | 319 | 74.7 | 214 | 73.0 | 105 | 78.4 | ||
| French | 90 | 21.1 | 67 | 22.9 | 23 | 17.2 | ||
| Italian | 18 | 4.2 | 12 | 4.1 | 6 | 4.5 | ||
aN = 396;bN = 425;crank biserial correlation from Mann–Whitney U tests