Table 2.
Differences in background factors with regard to work family conflict in the SLOSH study, Sweden (n = 6580)
| Characteristics at baseline | WFC 2008 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low (n = 3071), mean (SD) | Moderate (n = 2187), mean (SD) | High (n = 643), mean (SD) | Pa | |
| Age 2008 | 49.3 ± 9.9 | 47.9 ± 9.5 | 47.6 ± 9.3 | <0.0001 |
| Weekly working hours | 38.9 ± 13.4 | 42.0 ± 13.1 | 44.8 ± 13.8 | <0.0001 |
| Yearly income (in thousand SEK) | 300.9 ± 131.4 | 323.2 ± 169.8 | 344.5 ± 176.0 | <0.0001 |
| (row %) | n (row %) | n (row %) | Pb | |
| Sex | <0.001 | |||
| Men | 1709 (59.6) | 904 (31.5) | 256 (8.9) | |
| Women | 1992 (54.4) | 1283 (35.0) | 387 (10.6) | |
| Marital status | 0.578 | |||
| Unmarried | 1076 (16.5) | 603 (9.2) | 201 (3.1) | |
| Married | 2141 (32.8) | 1291 (19.8) | 361 (5.5) | |
| Divorced | 430 (6.6) | 267 (4.1) | 72 (1.1) | |
| Widowed | 54 (0.8) | 26 (0.4) | 9 (0.1) | |
| Education 2008 | <0.001 | |||
| Compulsory school | 426 (73.4) | 117 (20.2) | 37 (6.3) | |
| High school | 1808 (61.2) | 922 (31.2) | 223 (7.6) | |
| University (<2 years) | 236 (54.5) | 147 (23.0) | 50 (11.6) | |
| University (≥2 years) | 1230 (48.0) | 999 (39.0) | 333 (13.0) | |
| Children at home 2008 | <0.001 | |||
| No | 2002 (61.3) | 997 (30.5) | 266 (8.2) | |
| 1 Child | 650 (55.8) | 399 (34.3) | 115 (9.9) | |
| 2 Children | 793 (50.2) | 588 (37.2) | 199 (12.6) | |
| 3 Children | 217 (50.8) | 162 (37.9) | 48 (11.5) | |
| ≥4 Children | 39 (41.04) | 41 (43.2) | 15 (15.8) | |
| Full-time employment | 2848 (55.9) | 1717 (33.7) | 533 (10.5) | 0.018 |
| Poor self-rated health 2010 | 589 (16.13) | 649 (22.44) | 218 (34.22) | <0.0001 |
| Emotional exhaustion 2010 | 503 (13.96) | 649 (30.40) | 330 (52.72) | <0.0001 |
| Problem drinking 2010 | 193 (5.30) | 144 (6.68) | 45 (7.10) | <0.001 |
a: P-values from Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test.
b: Chi-square test.