Table 5: Descriptive statistics on the employment of hard and soft strategies by gender.
| Details | Descriptive statistics | t-test statistic & P value |
| Hard strategies | ||
| Male | 36.5 ± 7.1; 34.0-39.0 | -1.510, P = 0.143 |
| Female | 39.9 ± 7.5; 35.8-44.1 | |
| Soft strategies | ||
| Male | 84.7 ± 12.0; 80.5-89.0 | -0.912, P = 0.371 |
| Female | 88.6 ± 14.3; 80.6-96.5 | -0.912, P = 0.371 |