Work-related stress and intention to leave among midwives working in Swiss maternity hospitals – a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Differences regarding work-related stress between various midwife-generations

	generation baby boomer¹			generation X²			generation Y³			K-W test
	n=15			n=34			n=48			n=96			pairwise comparisons
	Mdn	M	SD	Mdn	M	SD	Mdn	M	SD	test	DF	sign.
meaning of work	87.5	89.2	11.4	93.8	89.0	12.2	100	89.9	13.9	.4	2	.806
bond with the organisation	50.0	59.2	19.2	56.3	59.4	13.8	62.5	59.2	19.4	.2	2	.901
work-private life conflicts	25.0	31.2	18.8	41.9	38.9	17.5	36.3	37.9	17.0	2.7	2	.264
demarcation	25.0	25.0	22.2	25.0	32.8	20.5	37.5	34.4	19.1	2.5	2	.292
job satisfaction	70.8	69.2	7.5	72.9	70.2	10.5	68.8	66.8	12.2	2.1	2	.350
intention to leave the organisation	0.0	10.0	15.8	25.0	21.9	22.7	25.0	29.3	22.5	9.5	2	.009	1 vs. 3=22.8**
intention to leave the profession	0.0	11.7	16.0	25.0	18.8	21.1	12.5	17.4	21.0	1.2	2	.561

1 = generation baby-boomer (1946-1964), 2 = generation X (1965-1979), 3 = generation Y (1980-1993), all scales are scored from 0 (minimum value) to 100 (maximum value). n number of cases, Mdn Median, M mean, SD standard deviation, standardised test statistics of Kruskal-Wallis test adjusted by the Bonferroni correction for multiple tests between Generations at the level *p ≤ .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001

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