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Table 1 Description of LS scores, socioeconomic, health-related factors and career attitudes, for each group

From: Life Satisfaction and mobility: Their associations with career attitudes, and health-related factors among postgraduates having studied in universities intra EU and outside EU

Life Satisfaction [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 12, 17]

 

Mobile outside EU = 43

Mobile intra EU = 381

Non mobile = 66

 

% or Mean (SD)

% or Mean (SD)

% or Mean (SD)

p1

 

8.5 (1.5)

7.8 (1.6)

7.9 (1.5)

0.043*

Age

27.4 (8.1)

26.6 (5.2)

31.0 (8.5)

< 0.001***

Sex

Male

63.2

42.2

48.4

0.038*

Female

36.8

57.8

51.6

 

Type of household

Not living alone

57.9

64.3

93.7

< 0.001***

Financial situation

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 12, 17]

7.4 (2.7)

6.7 (2.2)

6.8(2.3)

0.157

Health-related

factors [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 12, 17]

Health satisfaction

7.9 (2.0)

7.4 (2.2)

7.4 (2.3)

0.438

QoL-autonomy

7.5 (1.3)

6.8 (1.6)

6.9 (1.6)

0.052

Worry

3.8 (2.4)

4.1 (2.4)

4.4 (2.4)

0.486

Career attitudes

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 12, 17]

Adaptability

8.1 (1.1)

7.5 (1.4)

7.8 (1.6)

0.012*

Optimism

7.8 (1.4)

7.1 (1.6)

7.1 (1.5)

0.034*

Knowledge

5.7 (2.1)

5.6 (2.3)

6.0 (2.4)

0.440

Planning

6.4 (2.1)

6.5 (2.3)

6.6 (2.0)

0.772

  1. 1 Significant p-value: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001 are presented in bold
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