Table 5.
Total and Gender Stratified Estimates (age and education adjusted) of effects of financial hardship on mean GAD scores according to the social mobility hypothesis (95% CI). Total (n = 18,718), Men (n = 7,246) and women (n = 11,472). The BBC Stress Test.
| Total |
Male |
Female |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| (95% CI) | (95% CI) | (95% CI) | |
| Never experienced financial hardship | Reference | Reference | Reference |
| Financial hardship in childhood, but not adulthood | 0.67 (0.45 0.89) | 0.70 (0.36 1.05) | 0.50 (0.21 0.80) |
| Financial hardship in adulthood, but not in childhood | 0.67 (0.50 0.83) | 0.58 (0.38 0.88) | 0.73 (0.53 0.93) |
| Always experienced financial hardship | 1.65 (1.34 1.97) | 1.48 (0.90 2.07) | 1.64 (1.26 2.01) |
| Observations | 18,718 | 7,246 | 11,472 |
*All estimates presented are statistically significant at p < 0.01.