Table 4 Comparison of emotional exhaustion scores with different demographic characteristics

Gender

Male

12,217

11.28

6.39

2.367

0.018

0.001

Female

10,766

11.09

5.65

Place of origin

Urban

13,721

11.18

6.23

-0.321

0.748

0.001

Non-urban

9,262

11.21

5.77

Grade

Freshman

12,633

10.70

6.03

31.975

 < 0.001

0.008

Sophomore

5,789

11.83

5.95

Junior year

2,651

11.79

6.37

Senior year

794

11.92

5.82

Fifth year of college

30

13.50

6.00

Master

933

11.40

5.66

Doctor

153

11.54

6.23

Whether an only child

Only son

12,077

11.11

6.34

-2.132

0.033

0.001

Non-only child

10,906

11.28

5.72

Whether you hold a position in the university

Student leaders (class/ student/society, etc.)

7,850

10.95

6.21

13.888

 < 0.001

0.001

No job

13,922

11.27

5.94

Student leader in the past

1,211

11.81

6.18

Residential experience in middle and high school

Yes

13,469

11.27

5.85

2.310

0.021

0.001

No

9,514

11.08

6.33

The highest level of education received by his or her parents

Primary school and below

1,434

11.29

5.64

1.328

 < 0.001

0.001

Junior high school

8,012

11.17

5.73

High school or technical secondary school

7,048

11.11

6.06

Junior college

2,526

11.13

6.18

Undergraduate

3,476

11.34

6.62

Master degree and above

487

11.62

7.12

Monthly living expenses(Yuan)

 < 1,000

1,409

11.59

6.31

3.828

0.004

0.001

1,000–1,500

9,755

11.11

5.84

1,500–2,000

8,121

11.16

6.02

2,500–3,000

2,655

11.19

6.35

 > 3,000

1,043

11.69

6.99

The pressure of study and life in the past two months

1-Extremely little stressed

2,177

7.59

7.30

9.084

 < 0.001

0.114

2-Very little stressed

4,217

9.21

5.27

3-Little stressed

8,363

11.07

5.23

4-Much stressed

6,122

12.59

5.48

5-Very much stressed

1,497

14.56

6.07

6-Extremely much stressed

607

17.19

8.57

The degree of interest in professional knowledge

Very interested

5,014

8.76

6.87

77.225

 < 0.001

0.077

Have interested

9,243

10.82

5.40

Generally

5,216

12.91

5.29

Less interest

3,019

12.56

5.63

No interest

491

16.27

7.69

Weekly exercise time (hours)

1

12,709

11.82

5.76

15.841

 < 0.001

0.015

2

6,430

10.69

5.92

3

2,152

10.09

6.19

4

1,692

9.79

7.68

Smoking

Smoking

979

12.36

6.76

28.297

 < 0.001

0.002

Quit smoking

557

12.22

6.68

Never smoked

21,447

11.11

5.99

Drinking

Drinking

5,569

12.11

5.98

10.568

 < 0.001

0.001

Quit drinking

986

11.98

6.46

Never drank

16,428

10.83

6.01

Overall satisfaction with study

Very satisfied

3,569

8.06

7.42

73.342

 < 0.001

0.113

Satisfied

9,077

10.17

5.31

Generally

8,823

12.83

5.12

Dissatisfied

1,196

14.52

5.90

Very dissatisfied

318

11.75

8.24

Sleep quality in the past two months

Very bad

431

16.22

7.27

48.760

 < 0.001

0.078

Pretty bad

1,696

13.99

5.69

Generally

7,728

12.47

5.44

Good

8,924

10.42

5.53

Very good

4,204

8.83

6.85