An evidence-based approach to understanding the competency development needs of the health service management workforce in Australia

Table 6 Differences between mean self-assessment scores and mean colleague scores (supervisor (a), peer (b) and report (c)): t-tests for equality of means

	t	df	Sig. (2-tailed)	Mean Difference	95% CI of Difference
	t	df	Sig. (2-tailed)	Mean Difference	Lower	Upper
(a) Self- versus supervisor assessment
Competency 1	−1.410	181	0.307	−0.176	−0.423	0.071
Competency 2	−1.682	181	0.094	−0.193	− 0.419	0.033
Competency 3	−3.166	181	0.002	− 0.357	− 0.579	− 0.134
Competency 4	− 0.888	181	0.375	− 0.087	− 0.280	0.106
Competency 5	−0.546	181	0.586	−0.057	−0.261	0.148
Competency 6	−0.526	181	0.600	−0.064	−0.302	0.175
Competencies combined	−1.705	181	0.090	−0.172	−0.371	0.027
(b) Self- versus peer assessment
Competency 1	−4.453	178	< 0.0005	−0.461	−0.665	− 0.257
Competency 2	−4.673	178	< 0.0005	−0.471	−0.670	− 0.272
Competency 3	−6.177	178	< 0 < 0.0 < 0.0005	−0.621	−0.821	− 0.423
Competency 4	−2.578	178	0.011	−0.221	−0.389	− 0.052
Competency 5	−2.624	178	0.009	−0.242	−0.424	− 0.060
Competency 6	−3.169	178	0.002	−0.318	−0.516	− 0.120
Competencies combined	−4.260	178	< 0.0005	−0.375	−0.549	− 0.201
(c) Self- versus report assessment
Competency 1	−4.067	175	< 0.0005	−0.476	−0.707	− 0.245
Competency 2	−4.909	175	< 0.000 < 0.0005	−0.552	−0.774	− 0.330
Competency 3	−6.940	175	< 0.000 < 0.0005	−0.761	−0.977	− 0.545
Competency 4	−2.752	175	0.007	−0.295	−0.507	− 0.084
Competency 5	−3.288	175	0.001	−0.360	−0.576	− 0.144
Competency 6	−2.960	175	0.004	−0.346	−0.576	− 0.115
Competencies combined	−4.577	175	< 0.0005	−0.476	−0.681	− 0.271

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