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Table 2 Age, sex, education and civil status specific scores of perceived control

From: Adverse health effects of low levels of perceived control in Swedish and Russian community samples

	LSH – Sweden				HAPIEE – Russia
	Men		Women		Men		Women
Control		Alpha		Alpha		Alpha		Alpha
Sum score -mean	40.56	0.66	39.00	0.71	34.51	0.64	33.59	0.63
-SD	7.20		8.06		8.00		7.94
Age
45–49	40.32	0.71	40.24	0.70	36.74	0.60	35.45	0.63
50–54	40.77	0.67	41.13	0.73	35.45	0.59	34.88	0.63
55–59	42.67	0.58	39.49	0.71	34.79	0.64	33.60	0.65
60–64	40.67	0.69	37.61	0.69	33.98	0.65	32.76	0.58
65–69	38.17	0.66	36.53	0.67	32.34	0.64	31.64	0.61
p*	0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001
Education
Primary or less	39.10	0.61	36.61	0.66	31.57	0.74	31.53	0.69
Secondary/Vocational	40.89	0.65	39.53	0.70	34.38	0.60	33.28	0.63
University	42.60	0.73	42.23	0.73	35.79	0.62	35.06	0.61
p*	< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001		< 0.001
Civil status
Married/cohabiting	40.91	0.67	39.65	0.72	34.81	0.63	34.26	0.62
Single	37.19	0.78	39.46	0.63	33.18	0.72	32.65	0.63
Divorced	40.22	0.53	37.19	0.72	33.17	0.63	33.09	0.65
Widowed	39.48**	0.61	34.12	0.71	30.77	0.68	32.26	0.64
p*	0.07		0.003		< 0.001		< 0.001

Alpha = Cronbach alpha
* p-value for one-way ANOVA
** only 4 individuals

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