Influence of personal and environmental factors on mental health in a sample of Austrian survivors of World War II with regard to PTSD: is it resilience?

Table 2 Multinomial logistic regression predicting outcome (reference category = PTSD)

		Resilient vs. PTSD^a	Mild-to-moderate trauma vs. PTSD^a
Age		0.95 [0.94, 1.07]	1.03 [0.96, 1.10]
Female Sex		0.58 [0.23, 1.46]	0.72 [0.26, 1.99]
Education (compared to < 10 years)	10–12 years	2.46 [1.01, 6.05]	2.59 [0.98, 6.82]
	> 12 years	1.57 [0.43, 5.72]	0.93 [0.20, 4.25]
Marital status (compared to	Married	0.59 [0.22, 1.59]	0.26 [0.87, 0.80]
widowed or divorced)	Single	0.84 [0.14, 5.09]	1.74 [0.30, 10.24]
Living at own home (compared to nursing home)		1.02 [0.41, 2.49]	0.91 [0.35, 2.37]
Number of lifetime traumata		0.73 [0.59, 0.91]	0.90 [0.71, 1.14]
Symptoms of depression		0.21 [0.06, 0.71]	0.29 [0.08, 1.04]
Engaged in voluntary work		4.86 [1.42, 16.70]	4.34 [1.12, 16.79]
Social support on WRTs		0.91 [0.64, 1.29]	1.00 [0.68, 1.47]
Positive contribution of occupational forces		0.82 [0.37, 1.80]	0.49 [0.21, 1.19]

Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals. Significant (p < .05) ORs are printed boldface. ^a Full and sub-threshold PTSD.

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