Psychosomatic symptoms and low psychological well-being in relation to employment status: the influence of social capital in a large cross-sectional study in Sweden

Table 4 Multivariate categorical binary logistic regression analysing the effect of the summation of number of low social capital variables

	Many psychosomatic symptoms			Reduced psychological well-being
	OR^a	95% CI	p	OR^b	95% CI	p
Employed	1 (ref)			1 (ref)
Unemployed	1.622	1.372–1.918	<0.001	2.113	1.787–2.500	<0.001
0 low social capital items	1 (ref)			1 (ref)
1 low social capital item	1.378	1.233–1.540	<0.001	1.207	1.070–1.362	0.002
2 low social capital items	1.982	1.762–2.229	<0.001	1.643	1.447–1.867	<0.001
3 low social capital items	2.873	2.478–3.330	<0.001	2.612	2.235–3.052	<0.001
4–5 low social capital items	4.371	3.432–5.569	<0.001	3.906	3.050–5.002	<0.001

Low social support, no organization membership, low neighbourhood social trust, low trust in societal institutions and non-voting in the last general election each counted as one low social capital item. Adjusted for sex, age, educational level, and chronic disease.
^aNagelkerke’s R² = 0.181.
^bNagelkerke’s R² = 0.108.

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