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Table 3.

Critical incident trauma, social support, resilience, and post-traumatic stress disorder according to general characteristics.

Characteristics	Critical incident trauma			Social support			Resilience			Post-traumatic stress disorder
	M ±SD	t/F	p	M ±SD	t/F	p	M ±SD	t/F	p	M ±SD	t/F	p
Sex
Male	2.42 ± 1.01	5.12	0.025	2.96 ± 0.49	0.35	0.553	3.57 ± 0.54	0.13	0.716	1.05 ± 0.63	0.10	0.758
Female	2.00 ± 0.98			3.01 ± 0.52			3.61 ± 0.62			1.02 ± 0.74
Age
20–29^a	2.05 ± 0.95	2.24	0.085	3.23 ± 0.51	4.28	0.006	3.65 ± 0.59	1.44	0.232	0.76 ± 0.67	4.23	0.006
30–39^b	2.36 ± 0.99			2.97 ± 0.48		a > d^‡	3.47 ± 0.58			0.97 ± 0.70		a < d^‡
40-49^c	2.23 ± 1.03			2.96 ± 0.50			3.65 ± 0.49			1.11 ± 0.61
50 and over^d	2.67 ± 1.02			2.78 ± 0.44			3.65 ± 0.58			1.31 ± 0.53
Education level
High school completed^a	2.43 ± 0.88	0.36	0.785	2.99 ± 0.45	0.54	0.655	3.57 ± 0.44	3.38	0.020	1.04 ± 0.57	0.27	0.848
College completed^b	2.30 ± 0.94			3.06 ± 0.57			3.44 ± 0.61		c < d^‡	1.03 ± 0.58
University completed^c	2.29 ± 1.08			2.96 ± 0.51			3.55 ± 0.59			1.03 ± 0.71
Postgraduate or above^d	2.50 ± 1.00			2.86 ± 0.42			3.94 ± 0.38			1.17 ± 0.56
Rank
Policeman^a	2.40 ± 1.03	0.37	0.868	3.21 ± 0.53	3.06	0.011	3.69 ± 0.51	0.67	0.644	0.74 ± 0.70	2.29	0.047
Senior policeman^b	2.24 ± 1.01			2.98 ± 0.54		a > e^‡	3.55 ± 0.52			1.08 ± 0.79
Assistant inspector^c	2.33 ± 1.02			3.07 ± 0.39			3.55 ± 0.64			0.94 ± 0.62
Inspector^d	2.29 ± 1.04			2.89 ± 0.50			3.55 ± 0.52			1.14 ± 0.57
Senior inspector^e	2.55 ± 1.00			2.75 ± 0.43			3.56 ± 0.58			1.27 ± 0.62
Above superintendent^f	2.19 ± 1.12			2.97 ± 0.59			3.94 ± 0.48			0.89 ± 0.56
Work experience
< 5 years	2.28 ± 0.96	2.20	0.045	3.21 ± 0.50	2.54	0.022	3.63 ± 0.50	0.74	0.621	0.74 ± 0.68	2.43	0.027
5 < 10 years	2.24 ± 1.05			2.96 ± 0.48			3.51 ± 0.59			0.97 ± 0.68
10 < 15 years	2.48 ± 1.03			3.00 ± 0.42			3.64 ± 0.54			1.07 ± 0.67
15 < 20 years	2.17 ± 0.94			2.94 ± 0.58			3.50 ± 0.57			1.19 ± 0.62
20 < 25 years	2.13 ± 1.05			2.78 ± 0.39			3.54 ± 0.52			1.17 ± 0.63
25 < 30 years	2.48 ± 1.08			2.84 ± 0.65			3.71 ± 0.60			1.44 ± 0.29
Over 30 years	3.25 ± 0.78			2.72 ± 0.34			3.80 ± 0.58			1.23 ± 0.49
Field experience
< 5 years^a	2.06 ± 0.95	2.66	0.024	3.03 ± 0.52	1.84	0.108	3.53 ± 0.60	0.62	0.687	0.85 ± 0.67	3.38	0.006
5 < 10 years^b	2.35 ± 1.03			2.99 ± 0.50			3.56 ± 0.54			1.05 ± 0.67		a < d^‡
10 < 15 years^c	2.49 ± 1.04			3.05 ± 0.41			3.77 ± 0.44			1.13 ± 0.67
15 < 20 years^d	2.65 ± 0.96			2.87 ± 0.40			3.62 ± 0.41			1.44 ± 0.49
20 < 25 years^e	2.65 ± 0.96			2.69 ± 0.40			3.57 ± 0.67			1.11 ± 0.55
Over 25 years^f	3.00 ± 1.02			2.73 ± 0.56			3.64 ± 0.69			1.41 ± 0.32
Subjective health status
Having severe or some disease^a	2.83 ± 0.89	2.86	0.038	2.72 ± 0.38	12.24	< 0.001 a, b, c < d, b < c^‡	3.56 ± 0.49	6.56	< 0.001 b < c, d^‡	1.45 ± 0.49	9.79	< 0.001 a,b,c > d, a > c^‡
Normal^b	2.50 ± 1.15			2.74 ± 0.44			3.28 ± 0.58			1.21 ± 0.65
Generally healthy^c	2.22 ± 0.97			3.00 ± 0.47			3.66 ± 0.51			1.02 ± 0.62
Very healthy^d	2.14 ± 0.95			3.32 ± 0.47			3.78 ± 0.57			0.61 ± 0.62

^‡

Scheffe.

^{a − f}

means the sub-categories of each variable.