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Table 2 Determinants of physician visits in the past three months. Results of FE poisson regressions

From: Leadership position and physician visits – results of a nationally representative longitudinal study in Germany

Independent variables

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Doctor visits – Total sample

Doctor visits - Men

Doctor visits - Women

Doctor visits – with interaction

Age (in years)

−0.01

− 0.00

− 0.04*

− 0.02

(0.01)

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.01)

Other marital statuses (Ref.: Married, living together with spouse)

−0.15

− 0.02

− 0.40*

− 0.16

(0.14)

(0.19)

(0.16)

(0.14)

Self-rated health (from ‘very good’ to ‘bad’)

0.52***

0.55***

0.43***

0.51***

(0.05)

(0.07)

(0.08)

(0.05)

Number of chronic diseases

0.16**

0.14+

0.22+

0.17**

(0.06)

(0.07)

(0.12)

(0.06)

Neuroticism (higher values indicate higher neuroticsm)

0.01

0.01

0.00

0.01

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.01)

Extraversion (higher values indicate higher extraversion)

−0.02

−0.01

−0.03

−0.01

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.02)

Openness to experience (higher values indicate higher openness)

−0.00

0.01

−0.01

−0.00

(0.01)

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.01)

Agreeableness (higher values indicate higher agreeableness)

−0.01

0.00

−0.04

− 0.01

(0.02)

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.02)

Conscientiousness (higher values indicate higher conscientiousness)

0.01

0.02

0.01

0.01

(0.02)

(0.03)

(0.02)

(0.02)

Leadership position: - Middle management (Ref.: Top Management)

0.14

0.22

−0.03

0.23

(0.16)

(0.20)

(0.28)

(0.20)

- Lower management

0.15

0.41+

−0.36

0.43*

(0.16)

(0.22)

(0.23)

(0.21)

- Highly qualified specialist position

0.25

0.47*

−0.24

0.49*

(0.18)

(0.22)

(0.31)

(0.21)

Gender (Ref.: male) x Middle management

   

−0.32

   

(0.34)

Gender (Ref.: male) x Lower management

   

−0.83**

   

(0.31)

Gender (Ref.: male) Highly qualified specialist position

   

−0.78*

   

(0.38)

Observations

2140

1476

664

2140

Number of Individuals

1070

738

332

1070

  1. First column: total sample; second column: men; third column: women; fourth column: total sample, with interaction term gender x leadership position; Poisson coefficients were reported; cluster-robust standard errors in parentheses
  2. *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05; + p < 0.10