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Table 2 The relative risk of emotional burden, stress, and depressive event based on the use of customer service manual, suppressed emotion or engaging angry customers by multiple logistic regression model

From: The role of customer service manual on workplace emotional burden in nationwide cross sectional study

Variables

Odds ratio (95% confidence interval)

Men

Women

Emotional Burden

(Stress or Depressive event)

Use of customer service manual

 Yes

1.40 (1.19–1.64)

1.25 (1.09–1.44)

 No

1.00 (reference)

1.00 (reference)

Stress

Use of customer service manual

 Yes

1.41 (1.20–1.66)

1.21 (1.05–1.39)

 No

1.00 (reference)

1.00 (reference)

Depressive event

Use of customer service manual

 Yes

1.15 (0.52–2.53)

2.22 (1.42–3.48)

 No

1.00 (reference)

1.00 (reference)

Suppressed emotion at worksite

 Rarely

1.00 (reference)

1.00 (reference)

 Sometimes

3.11 (2.58–3.75)

3.07 (2.51–3.75)

 Always

11.05 (9.06–13.48)

12.26 (10.00–15.03)

Angry customer

 Rarely

1.00 (reference)

1.00 (reference)

 Sometimes

1.65 (1.33–2.05)

1.73 (1.42–2.11)

 Always

2.57 (1.82–3.65)

2.46 (1.84–3.28)

  1. Adjusted for covariates including age, monthly household income, education, weekly working hours, job satisfaction, job schedule, job class, occupational classification, and time spent managing customers