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Table 4 T-test results for LIWC analyses comparing high and low IR work settings

From: The Improvement Readiness scale of the SCORE survey: a metric to assess capacity for quality improvement in healthcare

 

Low 10% IR Work settings

High 10% IR Work settings

T

p-value

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

df

Word Count

80.99 (126.12)

29.01 (37.59)

7.06

< 0.001***

469.41

Past Tense Verbs

2.06 (3.45)

1.21 (2.70)

2.67

0.008**

503

First Person Singular

2.15 (4.19)

1.34 (2.95)

2.47

0.014*

388.73

First Person Plural

1.83 (5.48)

2.69 (4.44)

−1.85

0.065

339.35

Positive Emotion

5.24 (9.10)

8.02 (10.35)

−2.85

0.005**

248.39

Negative Emotions

1.18 (2.10)

0.37 (1.18)

5.50

< 0.001***

462.21

Anxiety

0.24 (0.79)

0.10 (0.57)

2.28

0.023*

377.27

Anger

0.24 (1.02)

0.03 (0.21)

3.59

< 0.001***

419.13

Sadness

0.25 (0.83)

0.08 (0.55)

2.73

0.007**

408.03

Social

10.31 (10.74)

15.73 (13.83)

−4.28

<0.001***

226.23

  1. *** p < .001, * p < .010, * p < .05, p < .10
  2. All word categories (except “Past Tense Verbs”) failed Levene’s tests for equality of variances; in these cases, equal variances were not assumed for calculating T and p-values