Table 4.
Total and Sex Stratified Estimates (age and education adjusted) of effects of financial hardship on mean GAD scores according to the accumulation hypothesis (95% CI). Total (n = 18,718), Men (n = 7246) and women (n = 11,472). The BBC Stress test 2011. Sample Population: Residents of England.
| Adjusted | Total |
Male |
Female |
|---|---|---|---|
| (95% CI) | (95% CI) | (95% CI) | |
| Never experienced financial hardship (0) | Reference | Reference | Reference |
| Financial hardship in either Childhood or Adulthood (1) | 0.67 (0.52 0.81) | 0.60 (0.35 0.84) | 0.65 (0.47 0.83) |
| Always experienced financial hardship (2) | 1.65 (1.34 1.97) | 1.48 (0.90 2.06) | 1.63 (1.25 2.00) |
| R-Squared | 0.0345 | 0.0341 | 0.0361 |
| Observations | 18,718 | 7246 | 11,472 |
*All estimates presented are statistically significant at p < 0.01.