Nurse Managers’ Authentic Leadership and their Relationship with Work Engagement among Registered Nurses

Table 4

Differences in the scores of work engagement and authentic leadership based on nurses’ sociodemographic characteristics.

			Work engagement				Authentic leadership
Independent variables	Categories	N	Mean	SD	t/F	P value	Mean	SD	t/F	P value
Gender	Male	100	4.05	1.33	−0.36	0.717	2.36	0.80	3.15	0.002
	Female	138	4.11	1.08			2.02	0.86
Marital status	Unmarried	76	3.90	1.60	1.59	0.112	2.03	0.86	1.64	0.102
	Married	162	4.17	1.19			2.22	0.85
Educational level	Bachelor	164	4.21	1.11	2.30	0.023	2.21	0.86	1.82	0.225
	Higher studies	74	3.81	1.30			2.06	0.83
University of graduation in last education	Governmental	136	3.96	1.21	−1.93	0.054	2.14	0.89	−0.55	0.583
	Private	102	4.26	1.15			2.17	0.80
Current working unit	Medical-surgical	59	3.85	1.32	1.29	0.280	2.15	0.84	0.38	0.767
	ICU	59	4.12	0.86			2.20	0.73
	ER	45	4.06	1.50			2.25	0.94