**3.2 Associations between mobbing and potential correlates: results from univariate analysis**

In this section, the main research aim will be examined which is to find possible dependencies between negative issues at work with demographic characteristics. Internal reliability was very satisfying as Cronbach Alpha value is 0.932 > 0.7.


#### **Table 2.**

*Descriptive statistics for NAQ items.*

Due to high internal reliability, questions that referred to negative issues at work have been grouped in a new variable named "Score of negative issues at work" using the unbiased estimator of mean value. The mean value of "Score of negative issues at work" is 2.45 indicating that negative issues happen rarely to sometimes while standard deviation is 0.743.

**Table 3** indicates results of the univariate analysis regarding the associations between NAQ overall score, sociodemographic, and work-related features. **Table 3** indicates that mean value of variable "Score of negative issues at work" differs in different categories of demographic features "Age" (p-value = 0.0174 < 0.05,

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#### **Table 3.**

*Univariate associations of NAQ overall score with demographic features. Bold cells denote statistically significant associations.*

ANOVA), "Sector-Specialty" (p-value = 0.0043 < 0.05, ANOVA) and "Years of work as a medical resident at UGHP" (p-value = 0.4776 < 0.05, ANOVA).
