Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of participants (n = 1684) in the Norwegian population (NorPop) study, data collected 2015–2016
| Characteristics | Sample (n = 1684) |
Men (n = 787) |
Women (n = 897) |
p | d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age group | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
| 18–30 | 203 (12.1) | 70 (8.9) | 133 (14.8) | < 0.001 | |
| 31–40 | 182 (10.8) | 67 (8.5) | 115 (12.8) | ||
| 41–50 | 345 (20.5) | 145 (18.4) | 200 (22.3) | ||
| 51–60 | 340 (20.2) | 167 (21.2) | 173 (19.3) | ||
| 61–70 | 374 (22.2) | 206 (26.2) | 168 (18.7) | ||
| 71 or above | 240 (14.3) | 132 (16.8) | 108 (12.0) | ||
| Education | |||||
| 12 years or less | 761 (45.2) | 368 (46.8) | 393 (43.8) | 0.23 | |
| More than 12 years | 923 (54.8) | 419 (53.2) | 504 (56.2) | ||
| Employment | |||||
| Working | 1040 (61.8) | 470 (59.7) | 570 (63.5) | 0.11 | |
| Not working | 644 (38.2) | 317 (40.3) | 327 (36.5) | ||
| Anxiety | |||||
| Current anxiety | 111 (6.6) | 37 (4.7) | 74 (8.2) | < 0.01 | |
| Lifetime anxiety | 365 (21.7) | 133 (16.9) | 232 (25.9) | < 0.001 | |
| Past anxiety | 254 (15.1) | 96 (12.2) | 158 (17.6) | < 0.01 | |
| No anxiety | 1319 (78.3) | 654 (83.1) | 665 (74.1) | < 0.001 | |
| Psychological factors | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | ||
| General self-efficacy (mean) | 2.9 (0.6) | 3.0 (0.6) | 2.8 (0.6) | < 0.001 | 0.20 |
| Optimism (mean) | 2.9 (0.5) | 2.9 (0.5) | 2.9 (0.5) | 0.69 | 0.02 |
| Extraversion (sum) | 3.9 (1.8) | 3.6 (1.8) | 4.1 (1.8) | < 0.001 | 0.28 |
| Neuroticism (sum) | 1.9 (1.9) | 1.5 (1.7) | 2.2 (1.9) | < 0.001 | 0.49 |
Note. ‘Lifetime anxiety’ includes the two categories ‘current anxiety’ and ‘past anxiety’. Statistical tests are χ2-tests for categorical variables and independent t-tests for continuous variables. Effect sizes are calculated as Cohen’s d