Table 1 Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) for the standardized mental health measures divided by gender. Note: Participants who indicated “prefer not to answer” (N = 5) were not included in the table.

From: Doctoral researchers’ mental health and PhD training satisfaction during the German COVID-19 lockdown: results from an international research sample

Brief Symptom Inventory

Gender

M

SD

 ≥ 1 SD

M

SD

 ≥ 1 SD

M

SD

 ≥ 1 SD

 

Depression

Anxiety

Phobic anxiety

All

55.7

3.8

N = 47

52.1

4.7

N = 8

59.0

4.5

N = 124

Woman

55.1

3.7

N = 30

51.2

4.6

N = 1

59.0

4.9

N = 84

Man

56.7

3.8

N = 14

53.7

4.5

N = 7

59.0

3.4

N = 35

Other

58.8

2.9

N = 2

54.5

2.9

N = 0

61.0

7.1

N = 2

 

Obsessive compulsive

Hostility

Psychoticism

All

49.8

4.4

N = 0

52.3

5.2

N = 18

57.4

4.0

N = 42

Woman

49.4

4.7

N = 0

51.3

5.0

N = 4

57.6

4.4

N = 27

Man

50.4

3.8

N = 0

54.5

5.0

N = 14

57.0

3.2

N = 14

Other

51.3

2.9

N = 0

52.5

5.5

N = 0

57.8

2.5

N = 0

 

Paranoia

Sensitivity

Somatisation

All

52.6

3.6

N = 6

54.3

5.2

N = 45

51.8

3.7

N = 12

Woman

52.5

3.6

N = 3

53.1

5.0

N = 23

51.1

3.4

N = 1

Man

52.8

3.6

N = 3

56.3

5.1

N = 20

53.2

4.0

N = 11

Other

53.5

5.2

N = 0

58.3

3.7

N = 1

52.3

4.0

N = 0

Copenhagen Burnout Inventory

   

Gender

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

   

Personal

Work

Total

   

All

49.1

21.8

47.1

22.0

48.0

20.4

   

Woman

52.1

21.5

49.1

21.8

50.5

20.1

   

Man

43.2

21.2

42.7

21.8

42.9

20.1

   

Other

56.3

24.9

63.4

20.5

60.1

21.8

   

De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale

  

Gender

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

 ≥ 9

  

Social

Emotional

Total

  

All

2.1

1.8

3.7

1.7

5.8

3.1

N = 54

  

Woman

2.0

1.8

3.7

1.7

5.6

3.0

N = 34

  

Man

2.6

1.9

3.7

1.8

6.3

3.3

N = 19

  

Other

2.3

1.5

4.3

1.7

6.5

1.3

N = 0

  
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