Coping with interpersonal stress and psychological distress at work: comparison of hospital nursing staff and salespeople

Figures & data

Table 1 Means and standard deviations of coping strategies and psychological distress scores for nurse and salesperson samples

Variable	Nurses (N=204)		Salespeople (N =142)		t-value	df	95% CI		d-value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD			LL	UL
Psychological distress	9.44	6.43	7.84	7.49	2.13*	344	−3.08	−0.12	0.23
Coping strategy
Distancing coping	3.80	3.38	3.23	2.58	1.70**	344	−0.090	1.233	0.19
Reassessing coping	7.75	3.68	7.12	3.09	1.66**	344	−0.116	1.366	0.18
Constructive coping	6.29	2.84	5.77	2.94	1.65**	344	−0.100	1.139	0.18

Notes: 95% confidence interval (CI) is for t-value. d-value (Cohen’s d) is an effect size for t-value.

* P<0.05;

** P<0.10.

Abbreviations: LL, lower limit; UL, upper limit; df, degrees of freedom.

Table 2 Correlations between coping strategies and psychological distress scores and testing the difference in correlation coefficients

Coping strategy	Nurses (N=204)	Salespeople (N=142)	z-value	q-value
	r	r
Distancing coping	0.235***	0.207*	0.267	0.03
Reassessing coping	−0.224***	−0.075	1.384	0.15
Constructive coping	−0.237***	0.013	2.308*	0.26

Notes: q-value (Cohen’s q) is an effect size for z-value.

* P<0.05;

*** P<0.001.