Table 5.

Means (Analysis of Variance) and adjusted means (Analysis of Covariance with control variables age and gender) of the socio-demographic variables for the 5 functioning scales

Variables	SORM		SCR		SL		MSCR		MSORM
	Mean	Adj. mean	Mean	Adj. mean	Mean	Adj. mean	Mean	Adj. mean	Mean	Adj. mean
Gender
Male	3.90**		2.20NS		0.26**		0.07NS		0.32***
Female	4.25		2.24		0.40		0.10		0.47
Age groups
17–25	3.18***		2.11***		0.01***		0.00***		0.04***
26–44	3.40		2.05		0.06		0.01		0.19
45–54	3.83		2.14		0.20		0.03		0.30
55–64	4.63		2.20		0.43		0.07		0.69
65 +	5.60		2.64		1.01		0.31		0.84
Marital status
Single	3.30***	4.40NS	2.15***	2.38*	0.07***	0.52*	0.01***	0.13**	0.06***	0.44NS
Married	4.11	4.13	2.19	2.18	0.32	0.33	0.07	0.07	0.44	0.45
Widowed	5.24	4.11	2.61	2.39	0.86	0.41	0.30	0.18	0.70	0.31
Education
1st	5.11***	4.24**	2.52***	2.32***	0.80***	0.48***	0.23***	0.13**	0.72***	0.45NS
2nd	3.90	3.72	2.10	2.06	0.23	0.17	0.05	0.03	0.41	0.35
3rd	3.73	3.85	2.15	2.18	0.24	0.29	0.07	0.08	0.29	0.32
4th	3.56	4.10	2.21	2.33	0.09	0.29	0.02	0.08	0.14	0.30
5th	3.43	3.83	2.02	2.11	0.10	0.25	0.02	0.07	0.02	0.15
Employm. status
employed	3.53***	3.92**	2.06***	2.12**	0.12***	0.27**	0.01***	0.05***	0.21***	0.34**
unemployed	4.69	4.29	2.38	2.32	0.57	0.42	0.17	0.13	0.61	0.49
Living arrangements
Parents/others of 'head'	5.14***	4.54*	2.47***	2.33NS	0.89***	0.67***	0.22***	0.16***	0.62***	0.39NS
Children of 'head'	3.24	4.65	2.12	2.44	0.03	0.56	0.00	0.13	0.04	0.57
Lives only with spouse	5.23	4.80	2.40	2.29	0.80	0.64	0.23	0.19	0.77	0.61
Lives alone	5.47	4.66	2.70	2.54	0.93	0.63	0.41	0.34	0.77	0.46
Couple with children	3.72	4.30	2.11	2.24	0.15	0.37	0.02	0.07	0.32	0.54
'Head' without spouse living with others	4.31	4.17	2.54	2.51	0.54	0.49	0.08	0.07	0.46	0.40
Size of the household
1	5.40***	4.48NS	2.68**	2.52NS	0.90***	0.55NS	0.40***	0.55NS	0.75***	0.31***
2–4	4.10	4.40	2.22	2.27	0.34	0.45	0.08	0.45	0.41	0.11
5 +	3.85	4.47	2.17	2.28	0.23	0.48	0.04	0.48	0.33	0.11

*** p ≤ 0.001, ** p ≤ 0.01, *p ≤ 0.05, NS=non statistically significant