Table 3.

Adjusted differences in social support scores between veteran and civilian NESARC-III respondents, by sex

	Veterans compared to civilians
	Men			Women			p value for interaction
Social support measure	Diff	95% CI	p value	Diff	95% CI	p value
Structural social support
Social network diversity
Minimal adjustmenta	−0.22	−0.32, −0.11	< 0.001	−0.11	−0.36,0.15	0.40	0.41
Full adjustmentb	−0.13	−0.23, −0.03	0.01	−0.13	−0.35, 0.09	0.24	0.98
Social network size
Minimal adjustmenta	−0.70	−1.58, 0.18	0.12	−2.18	−3.74, −0.63	0.006	0.08
Full adjustmentb	−0.31	−1.20, 0.59	0.50	−2.27	−3.81, −0.73	0.004	0.02
Functional social support
Total
Minimal adjustmenta	−0.25	−0.57, 0.07	0.12	−0.34	−0.99, 0.31	0.30	0.81
Full adjustmentb	0.02	−0.28, 0.32	0.89	−0.17	−0.81, 0.48	0.61	0.62
Appraisal
Minimal adjustmenta	−0.16	−0.29, −0.03	0.02	0.05	−0.21, 0.31	0.70	0.16
Full adjustmentb	−0.09	−0.21, 0.04	0.18	0.08	−0.18, 0.34	0.56	0.30
Belonging
Minimal adjustmenta	−0.04	−0.17, 0.09	0.57	−0.31	−0.62, −0.01	0.04	0.09
Full adjustmentb	0.07	−0.06, 0.20	0.30	−0.24	−0.53, 0.04	0.10	0.04
Tangible
Minimal adjustmenta	−0.05	−0.17, 0.06	0.34	−0.08	−0.31, 0.15	0.50	0.86
Full adjustmentb	0.04	−0.07, 0.14	0.47	−0.004	−0.25, 0.24	0.98	0.76

diff difference, CI confidence interval

^aAdjusted for age (continuous) and race (white vs. non-white)

^bAdjusted for ^a and education (at least some college vs. no college), employment (employed or in school vs. not employed), and rurality (urban vs. rural), DSM-5 substance-related or addictive disorder (yes vs. no), depressive disorders (yes vs. no), bipolar or related disorders (yes vs. no), anxiety disorders (yes vs. no), post-traumatic stress disorder (yes vs. no), feeding or eating disorders (yes vs. no), and personality disorders (yes vs. no), number of physical health conditions (continuous), childhood maltreatment score (continuous), childhood household dysfunction score (continuous), and childhood use of government assistance (yes vs. no)