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Table 3 Mean and standard deviation of coping categories score by staff, ethnicity and marital status

From: Relationship between coping styles and lipid profile among public university staff

  

Coping categories

Demographic characteristics

Task

Emotional

Avoidance

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Staff

Academic

64.12

7.54

43.86

9.63

49.53

10.73

Non-academic

61.49

6.39

48.05

8.79

57.61

8.84

p value

0.010*

0.002*

0.000*

Race

Non -Malay

66.00

6.24

37.81

8.34

44.81

10.00

Malay

62.23

6.97

47.14

9.058

55.23

10.03

p value

0.038*

0.000*

0.000*

Marital status

Married

62.42

7.38

44.77

9.03

52.11

11.37

Single/divorced/widowed

62.67

6.54

48.13

9.40

56.86

8.63

p value

0.807

0.012*

0.001*

  1. Abbreviation: SD standard deviation
  2. *p value is significant at 0.05