The buffering effect of tangible social support on financial stress: influence on psychological well-being and psychosomatic symptoms in a large sample of the adult general population

Table 3 Binary logistic regression of financial stress - tangible social support model in relation to having many psychosomatic symptoms in men and women

	Many psychosomatic symptoms
	Men			Women
	N 36 346^a	%	OR (95% CI)^{b, c}	N 42 514^a	%	OR (95% CI)^{b, d}
		***^e			***^e
No financial stress-high tangible social support	1590^f	6.7^g	1 (ref)	3957^f	15.6^g	1 (ref)
Medium financial stress-high tangible social support	594	13.3	1.88 (1.69-2.09)***	1879	24.8	1.62 (1.51-1.73)***
High financial stress-high tangible social support	419	25.6	4.00 (3.50-4.58)***	1223	39.7	2.95 (2.70-3.22)***
No financial stress-low tangible social support	459	12.8	1.85 (1.65-2.08 )***	814	29.1	2.00 (1.82-2.20)***
Medium financial stress-low tangible social support	237	21.3	3.24 (2.75-3.82)***	553	40.3	3.00 (2.65-3.39)***
High financial stress-low tangible social support	307	41.0	7.45 (6.28-8.85)***	541	57.0	5.49 (4.74-6.35)***

The data are presented as numbers and percentages of participants having many psychosomatic symptoms within each subgroup, odds ratios (ORs), and 95% confidence intervals (CIs).
***p≤0.001.
^aTotal number of participants included in the analysis.
^bAdjusted for age, country of birth, employment status, other chronic disease, and year of survey.
^cNagelkerke R² = 0.212.
^dNagelkerke R² = 0.227.
^eχ² test of differences between the subgroups within each sex.
^fNumber of participants within each subgroup who reported having many psychosomatic symptoms.
^gPercentage of participants within each subgroup who reported having many psychosomatic symptoms.

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