Table 6.
Mean and standard deviations of aspects of health and wellbeing by the level of closeness
| Aspects of Health and Wellbeing | Closeness | ||||||
| Low Closeness | Medium Closeness | High Closeness | ANOVA | ||||
| N = 380 | N = 379 | N = 380 | |||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||
| K6 Score | 7.29c | 5.56 | 9.17b | 5.35 | 11.7a | 6.13 | <.001* |
| Panas - negative affect scale | 10.91c | 4.11 | 12.93b | 4.19 | 15.11a | 4.95 | <.001* |
| Panas - positive affect scale | 15.28b | 3.82 | 15.62b | 3.45 | 16.31a | 4.31 | .002* |
| Life satisfaction | 5.89 | 2.44 | 6.02 | 2.19 | 6.13 | 2.48 | .416* |
| PWI total score standardised | 60.42 | 21.05 | 60.40 | 18.35 | 61.04 | 22.59 | .898* |
| SF-12 Domains | |||||||
| Bodily Pain Norm-Based Score | 48.16c | 9.98 | 44.95b | 8.90 | 41.19a | 11.26 | <.001* |
| Mental Health Norm-Based Score | 43.56b | 9.91 | 42.90 | 8.81 | 41.66a | 8.83 | .016* |
| Physical Functioning Norm-Based Score | 50.25c | 9.36 | 48.46b | 9.47 | 44.14a | 10.87 | <.001* |
| Role Emotional Norm-Based Score | 43.37c | 10.94 | 38.47b | 10.42 | 34.04a | 11.45 | <.001 |
| Role Physical Norm-Based Score | 47.20c | 9.47 | 43.77b | 8.18b | 40.47a | 9.90 | <.001* |
| Social Functioning Norm-Based Score | 45.03c | 10.02 | 41.27b | 8.98 | 39.11a | 10.50 | <.001* |
| Vitality Norm-Based Score | 46.84 | 9.70 | 47.46 | 9.46 | 47.38 | 11.21 | .637* |
| SF-12 Component Scores | |||||||
| Mental Component Score | 42.32b | 10.38 | 40.10a | 9.46 | 38.76a | 9.00 | <.001* |
| Physical Component Score | 50.61c | 9.50 | 49.13b | 7.94 | 45.82a | 9.19 | <.001* |
* Welch. Letters denotes means which are significantly different (Student-Newman-Keuls)