Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Table 4 Comparison of WSRI scores obtained through the pre- and post-stress surveys

From: Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Stress Management Program to Reduce Work-Related Stress in a Medium-Sized Enterprise

	Blue-collar workers								White-collar workers
		Pre-			Post-					Pre-			Post-
Subscales	N	Mean	SD	CB α	Mean	SD	CB α	P ^*	N	Mean	SD	CB α	Mean	SD	CB α	P ^*
Somatic symptoms	119	6.23	6.32	0.753	5.60	4.98	0.753	0.201	88	12.20	8.05	0.756	10.69	6.95	0.747	0.058
Depressive symptoms	120	4.58	5.56	0.748	3.97	4.52	0.758	0.177	89	8.96	7.10	0.752	8.16	6.20	0.747	0.247
Anger symptoms	120	3.08	3.73	0.788	3.17	3.35	0.798	0.762	89	6.68	5.22	0.791	6.70	4.26	0.791	0.972
Work-related symptoms	120	1.96	2.32	0.820	1.70	1.85	0.838	0.140	89	3.79	2.83	0.830	3.51	2.59	0.826	0.365
Total score	119	15.87	15.48	0.829	14.47	13.25	0.877	0.233	88	31.60	20.50	0.854	29.17	17.22	0.832	0.205

*p-value by paired t-test.
WSRI: Worker’s Stress Response Inventory, SD: Standard deviation, CB α: Cronbach’s alpha.

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