Identifying work ability promoting factors for home care aides and assistant nurses

Table 3 Correlations between the variables, for the assistant nurses (n = 79)

	Alpha	Scale	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1. Age, years	.	.
2. Sex (men/women, %)	.	.	*0.23*
3. Seniority, years	.	.	*0.25*	*0.26*
4. Safety climate, overall	0.96	1-4	0.10	-0.09	-0.09
5. Psychosocial job demands	0.66	1-4	-0.05	-0.11	0.08	-0.46
6. Physical job demands	.	6-20	0.10	0.11	0.17	-0.04	0.30
7. Personal safety behaviour	0.87	1-7	0.22	0.03	-0.11	0.36	-0.20	-0.12
8. Degree of personal safety	0.69	1-5	0.04	0.01	-0.06	0.41	-0.39	*-0.28*	0.30
9. Self-efficacy	0.63	1-5	0.30	-0.18	-0.06	0.35	-0.32	-0.34	0.33	0.37
10. Musculoskeletal wellbeing	0.86	1-5	-0.03	-0.18	-0.15	0.08	-0.16	*-0.24*	0.03	0.33	0.21
11. Work ability	0.67	3-17	0.06	0.00	-0.16	*0.24*	-0.20	- 0.30	*0.22*	0.49	0.45	0.46

Pearson's correlations (2-tailed) are significant at the 0.01 level and at the 0.05 level.
Dichotomous variable: Sex: Men = 1, women = 2.

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