100 J. Williams & A.P. Smith
Separate analyses of the nurses and other workers showed that job and personal
characteristics were related to stress in the same way in each group. In other words,
nurses report higher stress levels because of greater exposure to stressful working
conditions rather than showing different associations between working conditions
and reported stress.
Stress and mental health
Further logistic regressions were carried out to examine whether the association
between stress and clinical anxiety/depression differed in nurses and other workers.
Those experiencing high stress were 3.85 times as likely to suffer from clinical
anxiety. However, nurses were half as likely to suffer from clinical anxiety when
stressed as the other groups. ...