Table 2.

The difference of social support scores among participants and the norms of Chinese general population

Variables	Total sample (n = 656)	Norms of general population	t	p-value
Subjective supports core, mean ± SD	23.59 ± 5.21	23.81 ± 4.75	−1.079	>0.050
Objective social support score, mean ± SD	7.87 ± 2.54	12.68 ± 3.47	−48.428	< 0.001
Support utilization score, mean ± SD	7.36 ± 1.91	9.38 ± 3.40	−27.046	< 0.001
Total social support score, mean ± SD	38.82 ± 7.86	44.38 ± 8.38	−18.067	< 0.001

Abbreviations: SD standard deviation