Table 2.
Psychosocial measures.
| Women | Men | Sex differences | Case-referent differences | ||||
| Score range | Cases | Referents | Cases | Referents | p | p | |
| N | 82 | 149 | 264 | 461 | |||
| Everyday Life Stress | 0–60 | 17.5 | 18.3 | 18.9 | 18.6 | 0.75 | 0.92 |
| Stressful Life Events | 0–20 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 0.06 | 0.92 |
| Affecting own person | 0–6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.15 | 0.057 |
| Affecting others | 0–14 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 2.6 | <0.0001 | 0.055 |
| Vital exhaustion | 0–38 | 16.8 | 15.6 | 12.2 | 12.7 | <0.0001 | 0.48 |
| Depressive mood | 0–60 | 21.4 | 20.0 | 16.8 | 17.9 | <0.001 | 0.31 |
| Social support Scale | 0–39 | 23.0 | 21.3 | 23.4 | 22.0 | 0.32 | 0.0001 |
| Availability of attachment (AVAT) | 0–9 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.6 | <0.05 | 0.0008 |
| Availability of social integration (AVSI) | 0–30 | 14.6 | 13.5 | 15.5 | 14.3 | 0.07 | 0.0007 |
| Interpersonal support (ISEL) | 0–39 | 29.1 | 27.7 | 28.7 | 28.0 | 0.81 | 0.0085 |
| Appraisal | 0–15 | 10.5 | 10.2 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 0.74 | 0.28 |
| Belonging | 0–15 | 11.6 | 10.9 | 11.3 | 10.8 | 0.45 | 0.0071 |
| Tangible | 0–9 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 0.92 | 0.09 |
| Coping | 0–21 | 14.5 | 14.2 | 15.7 | 15.3 | <0.0001 | 0.054 |
| Optimism (LOT) | 0–30 | 18.8 | 19.1 | 20.0 | 19.8 | 0.0046 | 0.44 |
Psychosocial scale mean scores among female and male cases and referents, adjusted for the influence of age, education, marital status and smoking habits in conditional analyses. p < 0.005 were regarded as statistically significant.