. 2023 Feb 28;274(2):321–333. doi: 10.1007/s00406-023-01567-0

Table 1.

Cohort characteristics

	Patients with masculine depression (N_total = 81)			Patients with non-masculine depression (N_total = 82)			Healthy control subjects (N_total = 176)			Patients with masculine vs. patients with non-masculine depression		Patients with masculine depression vs. controls		Patients with non-masculine depression vs. controls
	N	M/F	SD	N	M/F	SD	N	M/F	SD	χ² or t	P	χ² or t	P	χ² or t	P
% Men	81	56		82	56		176	49		0.0	0.944	1.0	0.319	1.2	0.279
Age (years)	81	36.4	14.1	82	45.7	14.6	176	37.2	13.7	– 4.1	< 0.001	– 0.4	0.684	4.5	< 0.001
Months of employment during the previous year	77	8.1	4.9	76	6.2	5.6	173	8.2	4.9	2.3	0.023	– 0.1	0.894	– 2.7	0.007
Hours of employment per week	77	25.0	17.6	74	19.1	19.0	173	19.0	15.7	2.0	0.049	2.6	0.012	0.0	0.989
% Living in a current partnership	79	48		77	55		176	68		0.6	0.421	9.3	0.002	4.3	0.038
% Married	79	28		80	48		175	27		6.5	0.011	0.0	0.945	9.9	0.002
% Divorced	79	14		78	21		176	14		1.2	0.274	0.0	0.953	1.6	0.207
% At School	79	5		80	1		176	1		1.9	0.210	3.7	0.076	0.0	1.0
% In Vocational training	79	9		80	4		176	2		1.8	0.210	7.4	0.011	1.0	0.380
% At university	79	11		80	8		176	40		0.7	0.401	20.5	< 0.001	27.4	< 0.001
% In an employment relationship	79	51		80	39		176	52		2.3	0.132	0.0	0.874	3.7	0.054
% Self-Employed	79	6		80	6		176	11		0.0	1.0	1.6	0.211	1.6	0.201
% Unemployed	79	13		80	19		176	3		1.1	0.291	9.5	0.004	19.3	< 0.001
% Retired	79	10		80	20		176	3		3.0	0.082	4.7	0.039	19.3	< 0.001
BDI-II score	80	37.3	10.6	81	28.7	10.3	174	3.4	3.8	5.2	< 0.001	27.9	< 0.001	21.5	< 0.001
MDRS-22 score	81	2.6	0.8	82	1.1	0.4	176	0.4	0.4	15.2	< 0.001	24.2	< 0.001	14.7	< 0.001

The table shows the valid number of subjects analyzed (N), means (M) or relative frequencies (F), standard deviation (SD), and the results of χ² / Fisher and Student's t-tests. BDI-II Beck’s Depression Inventory-II, MDRS-22 Male Depression Rating Scale-22. P < 0.05 in bold