Table 2.

Prevalence of the absence of loneliness by welfare regimes and quality of living conditions and level of social integration variables

	Anglo-Saxon		Continental		Eastern		Nordic		Southern
	No loneliness	p	No loneliness	p	No loneliness	p	No loneliness	p	No loneliness	p
Quality of living conditions
Self-rated health
Good	80.3	≤ 0.001	83.8	≤ 0.001	72.8	≤ 0.001	84.9	≤ 0.001	70.5	0.209
Poor	64.0		68.1		54.1		71.5		67.3
Household size
1	53.2	≤ 0.001	48.5	≤ 0.001	26.1	≤ 0.001	59.2	≤ 0.001	32.0	≤ 0.001
2	86.2		85.5		73.6		89.3		73.7
3 and above	72.2		84.9		65.2		84.4		78.1
Feeling of safety
Safe	78.0	≤ 0.001	80.5	≤ 0.001	62.3	0.001	81.3	0.018	71.5	0.001
Unsafe	63.6		64.5		52.4		69.9		60.8
Level of social integration
Marital status
Married/partnership	84.4	≤ 0.001	85.8	≤ 0.001	77.5	≤ 0.001	89.3	≤ 0.001	78.1	≤ 0.001
Divorced/separated	58.4		62.1		36.4		68.2		52.1
Widowed	52.7		46.1		32.0		57.5		44.7
Single	68.2		62.4		38.3		71		58.9
Frequency of being social
Less than once a month	60.2	≤ 0.001	73.1	0.062	50.4	≤ 0.001	67.6	0.197	55.4	0.001
Once a month or more	73.0		78.0		67.3		80.7		67.9
Once a week or more	76.6		75.6		58.9		80.1		70.8
Number of confidants
0–1	67.9	≤ 0.001	61.3	≤ 0.001	52.5	≤ 0.001	73.8	0.153	59.1	≤ 0.001
2–3	72.0		74.9		58.8		80.1		64.1
4 and above	79.0		83.1		71.1		82.1		79.8