Factors and symptoms associated with work stress and health-promoting lifestyles among hospital staff: a pilot study in Taiwan

Table 4 Correlation of Health-promoting life-style profiles with subjects’ characteristics (N = 755)

Characteristics	Self-actualization		Health responsibility		Exercise		Nutrition		Interpersonal support		Stress management		Total score for health-promoting life-style
	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value
Gender	−0.057	0.111	0.009	0.805	−0.059	0.100	−0.066	0.068	0.051	0.156	0.005	0.889	−0.032	0.368
Job position	0.122	0.001^**	0.019	0.599	0.084	0.019^*	0.269	<.001^***	0.065	0.071	0.121	0.001^**	0.168	<.001^***
Work experience, years	0.062	0.087	0.078	0.030^*	0.015	0.672	0.198	<.001^***	−0.018	0.613	−0.001	0.977	0.087	0.015
Daily work times, hours	−0.072	0.045^*	−0.038	0.290	−0.094	0.009^**	−0.188	<.001^***	−0.018	0.623	−0.095	0.008^**	−0.127	<.001^***

r, coefficient of correlation of health-promoting life-style profiles with gender was derived through the point biserial correlation analysis (male, 1; female, 2); with job position through the point multiserial correlation analysis (physician, 1; nurse, 2; medical technician staff, 3; administrative staff, 4); with work experience or with daily work times through Spearman’s correlation analysis.
^*P < 0.05, ^**P < 0.01^{, ***}P < 0.001, indicate significant correlation between health-promoting life-style profiles and characteristics.

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