Children, care, career – a cross-sectional study on the risk of burnout among German hospital physicians at different career stages

Table 2 Predictors of emotional exhaustion (multiple regression analyses)

	Junior/male(regression 1)				Junior/female(regression 2)				Senior/male(regression 3)				Senior/female(regression 4)
Predictor	std. beta	SE beta	t	p	std. beta	SE beta	t	p	std. beta	SE beta	t	p	std. beta	SE beta	t	p
children	-0.08	1.32	-1.25	.21	-0.12	2.05	-1.52	.13	-0.09	1.91	-1.44	.152	0.26	2.27	2.25	.03*
relationship to colleagues	0.20	1.00	3.20	.00**	0.03	0.92	0.40	.69	0.22	1.11	3.39	.001**	0.41	1.75	3.45	.00***
support by superior	0.27	0.59	4.28	.00***	0.37	0.59	5.34	.00***	0.41	0.71	6.32	.00***	0.31	1.01	2.62	.01**
age	0.01	0.09	0.21	.84	0.08	0.11	0.99	.32	-0.04	0.10	-0.60	.551	-0.27	0.14	-2.26	.03*
clinical attendance	0.05	0.06	0.82	.42	0.09	0.06	1.40	.16	0.03	0.08	0.44	.66	0.42	0.10	3.56	.00***
surgery specialty	-0.01	1.27	-0.23	.817	-0.11	1.32	-1.59	.113	-0.07	1.49	-1.06	.291	-0.15	2.29	-1.21	.23
adj. R-Square	0.13				0.16				0.27				0.39
N	259				202				193				52

Criteria: only physicians with full-time weekly work commitments, without interruptions of work caused by holidays or illness during the last week; Dependent variable: emotional exhaustion (MBI). Children (no/yes), relationship to colleagues (very good → very bad), support by superior (very good → very bad), age (years), clinical attendance (hours last week), surgery specialty (no/yes), *p ≤ .05. **p ≤ .01. ***p ≤ .001.

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