Table 2.

Regressing QOL on pain, demographic and sickness variables, stress-related symptoms, fatigue, and subjective health. Unstandardized regression coefficients (B) and adjusted multiple Rs

	Quality of life
	Bivariate		Step A		Step B		Step C		Step D		Step E		Step F
	B	P	B	P	B	P	B	P	B	P	B	P	B	P
Age (years)	0.05	<0.01	0.13	<0.001	0.14	<0.001	0.07	<0.01	0.11	<0.001	0.10	<0.001	0.05	<0.05
Sex
Female		<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.		Ref.	<0.001
Male	−1.98		−2.16		−2.23		−4.35		−2.95		−2.12	<0.001	−4.06
Education (1–5)	1.37	<0.001	1.03	<0.001	0.97	<0.001	0.61	<0.001	0.57	<0.01	0.65	<0.01	0.38	<0.05
Work
Paid work	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.05	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.05
Pensioner	−2.85		−3.70		−2.34		−0.81		−1.63		−1.71		−0.56
Unemployed	−12.14		−9.05		−8.50		−4.94		−7.30		−7.77		−4.92
Student/military	−0.74		2.09		2.08		1.18		1.97		1.73		1.14
Home work	1.34		−0.45		−0.24		−0.79		−1.45		−0.41		−1.15
Marital status
Married	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.05	Ref.	ns	Ref.	ns	Ref.	<0.05	Ref.	<0.05	Ref.	<0.05
Divorced/separated	−4.58		−3.16		−2.73		1.60		−2.92		−2.86		−1.98
Widow	−3.08		−1.37		−1.36		−2.88		−1.62		−3.04		−3.58
Unmarried	−3.65		−1.81		−1.72		−1.47		−1.70		−1.43		−1.35
Living alone
No	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.05	Ref.	ns	Ref.	ns	Ref.	<0.05	Ref.	ns	Ref.	ns
Yes	−3.87		−1.90		−1.66		−0.98		−2.08		−1.22		−1.01
Chronic pain
No chronic pain	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	<0.001	Ref.	ns	Ref.	<0.05	Ref.	ns	Ref.	ns
Chronic pain	−5.50		−4.78		−2.84		−0.90		−1.49		−0.02		0.69
Chronic illnesses
No	Ref.	<0.001			Ref.	<0.01	Ref.	ns	Ref.	ns	Ref.	ns	Ref.	<0.05
Yes	−5.35				−2.26		−0.76		−0.31		1.20		1.48
Number of chronic illnesses (0–7)	−2.42	<0.001			−1.21	<0.001	−0.05	ns	−0.36	ns	−0.25	ns	0.51	ns
Stress-related symptoms (10–70)	−0.59	<0.001					−0.57	<0.001	–	–	–	–	−0.45	<0.001
Fatigue (1–7)	−4.03	<0.001							−3.64	<0.001	–	–	−1.16	<0.001
Subjective health (1–5)	5.42	<0.001									5.17	<0.001	2.91	<0.001
Adj. R square			0.11		0.12		0.34		0.24		0.22		0.39