Perceived stress of mental demands at work, objective stress and resilience – an analysis of the LIFE-Adult-study

Table 4 Conditional effects of perceived stress related to mental demands and resilience on work-related stress weighed for age, gender and level of education

Overall	Model 1: Chronic Stress		Model 2: Work Overload		Model 3: Work Discontent
Overall	β, 95% CI	p	β, 95% CI	p	β, 95% CI	p
Resilience	-0.234 (-0.328; -0.014)	< 0.001	-0.018 (-0.031; -0.006)	0.005	-0.018 (-0.028; -0.008)	0.001
Verbal MD	0.158 (0.038; 0.278)	0.010	0.213 (0.047; 0.379)	0.012	0.003 (-0.138; 0.144)	0.968
Executive MD	0.283 (0.175; 0.390)	< 0.001	0.251 (0.125; 0.377)	< 0.001	0.161 (0.048; 0.275)	0.005
Resilience x Verbal MD	0.012 (-0.001; 0.026)	0.079	0.021 (0.003; 0.040)	0.021	0.006 (-0.009; 0.022)	0.440
Resilience x Executive MD	0.002 (-0.013; 0.010)	0.803	-0.015 (-0.030; 0.001)	0.052	0.002 (-0.013; 0.017)	0.774
Gender	0.100 (-0.108; 0.309)	0.344	-0.101 (-0.423; 0.221)	0.538	-0.033 (-0.248; 0.183)	0.766
Age	-0.001 (-0.010; 0.010)	0.980	-0.001 (-0.015; 0.015)	0.986	-0.001 (-0.011; 0.010)	0.898
Education	0.057 (-0.097; 0.211)	0.471	0.043 (-0.166; 0.252)	0.689	0.089 (-0.095; 0.273)	0.344
Income	-0.029 (-0.112; 0.053)	0.488	0.022 (-0.096; 0.140)	0.719	-0.080 (-0.159; 0.001)	0.051
Employment status	0.345 (0.086; 0.605)	0.009	0.498 (0.134; 0.862)	0.007	-0.185 (-0.450; 0.080)	0.171
Anxiety	0.100 (-0.342; 0.542)	0.657	0.002 (-0.460; 0.465)	0.992	0.127 (-0.310; 0.565)	0.569
Depression	0.031 (-0.202; 0.264)	0.795	-0.014 (-0.415; 0.387)	0.946	0.276 (-0.072; 0.625)	0.120
R²	0.285		0.184		0.145

Note: MD = mental demands; CI = confidence interval; covariates: gender (ref. male), age, education, income, employment status (ref. full-time), diagnosis of anxiety disorder (ref. no), diagnosis of depression (ref. no); weighed for age, gender and level of education to be representative of the German general population

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