Association between job burnout and depressive symptoms in rural primary healthcare workers: The indirect role of sleep quality

Table 4 Path coefficients of the unconstrained model

Independent variable		Dependent variable	Estimate (B)	SE	CR	P value
Total burnout score	→	Subjective sleep quality	0.050	0.007	7.315	< 0.001c
Total burnout score	→	Sleep latency	0.043	0.008	5.630	< 0.001c
Total burnout score	→	Sleep duration	0.029	0.006	5.235	< 0.001c
Total burnout score	→	Use of sleep medication	0.017	0.006	2.754	0.006b
Total burnout score	→	Sleep efficiency	0.029	0.005	6.259	< 0.001c
Total burnout score	→	Sleep disturbance	0.012	0.004	3.009	0.003b
Total burnout score	→	Daytime dysfunction	0.093	0.009	10.540	< 0.001c
Subjective sleep quality	→	Depressive symptoms	1.580	0.551	2.867	0.004b
Sleep latency	→	Depressive symptoms	1.047	0.444	2.357	0.018a
Sleep duration	→	Depressive symptoms	-0.319	0.573	-0.557	0.578
Use of sleep medication	→	Depressive symptoms	0.691	0.509	1.359	0.174
Sleep efficiency	→	Depressive symptoms	2.359	0.649	3.633	< 0.001c
Sleep disturbance	→	Depressive symptoms	0.740	0.688	1.074	0.283
Daytime dysfunction	→	Depressive symptoms	-0.016	0.433	-0.036	0.971

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.

The arrow (→) represents a direct causal path from the independent variable to the dependent variable. CR: Critical ratio.