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Table 2 Logistic regression: your job is safe on organizational practices, work factors, employee characteristics, and control variables

From: Personal support workers’ perception of safety in a changing world of work

Exogenous and control variables

B

Std Error

WALD

Significance

Exp (B)

95% CI for Exp (B)

 

Lower

Upper

Organizational practices

 Organizational support

.079

.019

16.672

.000

1.082

1.042

1.123

 Training at work

.046

.021

4.785

.029

1.047

1.005

1.092

Work environment factors

 Hazards at work scale

− .050

.010

22.839

.000

.951

.932

.971

 Workload scale

− .029

.014

4.673

.031

.971

.946

.997

 Clients with unmet needs scale

− .032

.017

3.510

.061

.968

.936

1.001

 Job insecurity scale

− .061

.013

23.525

.000

.941

.918

.964

 Injured at work

− .571

.177

10.367

.001

.565

.399

.800

 Victim of violence or harassment at work

− .163

.163

.989

.320

.850

.617

1.171

 Job requires physical effort

− .195

091

4.572

.032

.823

.688

.984

 Control over work

.453

.121

14.011

.000

1.573

1.241

1.994

 Repetitive tasks

.249

.133

3.535

.060

1.283

.989

1.665

Employee characteristics

 Years as a PSW

.034

.009

13.980

.000

1.034

1.016

1.053

 Working full versus part-time

.199

.122

2.660

.103

1.220

.961

1.551

Control variables

 Age

− .011

.006

3.427

.064

.989

.977

1.001

 Born in Canada

− .034

.131

.068

.794

.967

.748

1.248

 Education level

.084

.050

2.862

.091

1.088

.987

1.199

 Constant

.818

.845

.937

.333

2.266

  
  1. N = 1512 with listwise deletion of data