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Table 1 Means and correlations (Kendall’s coefficient) of GP’s risk attitudes in different contexts

From: Comparing GPs’ risk attitudes for their own health and for their patients’ : a troubling discrepancy?

 

General

Financial matters

Patient’s health

Physician’s health

Mean

4.78

3.78

3.31

5.13

(Standard Deviation)

(2.28)

(2.36)

(2.29)

(2.41)

Mean (Men)

4.92

3.88

3.42

5.15

Mean (Women)

4.43

3.51

3.02

5.10

General

1.000

   

Financial Matters

0.441c

1.000

  

Patient’s Health

0.378c

0.368c

1.000

 

Physician’s Health

0.338c

0.293c

0.335c

1.000

“Do not know”

49 (3.12%)

61 (3.89%)

59 (3.76%)

55 (3.51%)

Observations (N)

1519

1507

1509

1513

  1. c, b and a represents significance at a 1‰, 1% and 5% level respectively