Table 2.
Types of specific stressors and their sociodemographic correlates.
| 12-months prevalence |
Sociodemographic correlatesa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stressors | N | % | Female gender | Higher age | Permanent partner, married | Acad. job training | Low social class |
| Unwillingly job loss (all participants) | 330 | 100.0 | |||||
| Divorce or separated | 24 | 7.3 | |||||
| Family conflicts | 98 | 29.8 | *, ↓ | ||||
| Conflicts with administration | 46 | 14.0 | *, ↓ | *, ↑ | |||
| Conflicts with neighbours | 37 | 11.3 | |||||
| Illness of/or care for family members | 66 | 20.1 | |||||
| Death of family members or close others | 59 | 18.0 | *, ↑ | ||||
| Retirement | 2 | 0.6 | |||||
| Moved to another apartment | 55 | 16.7 | *,↓ | *, ↓ | |||
| Financial problems | 106 | 32.2 | *, ↓ | *, ↓ | *, ↑ | ||
| Severe illness | 21 | 6.4 | |||||
| Serious accident | 10 | 3.0 | |||||
| Victim of raid/burglary | 6 | 1.8 | *, ↓ | ||||
| Gave up important leisure activity | 21 | 6.4 | *, ↑ | ||||
| Any other distressing event | 16 | 4.9 | |||||
| More than one | 257 | 77.9 | *, ↓ | ||||
| More than two | 156 | 47.3 | *, ↓ | *, ↓ | *, ↑ | ||
| More than three | 85 | 25.8 | *, ↑ | *, ↓ | *, ↓ | *, ↑ | |
Notes. * p < .05; p, probability: ↑, means higher probability of the stressor; ↓, means lower probability of the stressor.
a
Associations were investigated with logistic regression analyses. Only significant associations between the stressor types and the covariates of: female gender, higher age, living in a permanent partnership or married, an academic job training and the self-rating ‘belonging to a low social class’ are shown.