Burnout, work engagement and work hours – how physicians’ decision to work less is associated with work-related factors

Table 2 Multiple regression analyses with “Work hours reduction” as a predictor of the three dimensions of burnout and work engagement

	Patient-related Burnout	Personal Burnout	Work-related Burnout	Work Engagement
Work hours (no reduction^a)	5.05***	9.31***	6.69***	-1.39**
Age	0.02	-0.27***	-0.04	0.03
Gender (male^b)	-0.54	5.20***	4.15***	-0.07
Children (yes^c)	5.33**	2.79	4.78**	-1.32*
Marital status (married^b)
in a relationship	0.69	-1.99	-2.04	0.01
single	-0.75	-0.79	-0.56	0.99
constant	19.42	50.57	33.22	21.44
R²	0.03	0.11	0.09	0.04

Note: UWES = Utrecht Work Engagement Scale; ^areference category coded as “0” = no reduction in working hours, “wanting to reduce” was coded as “1”; ^breference category coded as “0” = male subjects; ^creference category coded as “0” = having children; ^dreference category coded as “0” = married;*p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001.

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