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Table 4 Means of total scores on PSS-10 by age, gender and work

From: Psychometric properties of the perceived stress scale in a community sample of Chinese

	Sample size		Total		P
	n	%	Mean	SD	P
Age
18–44	4161	43.8	19.6	4.7	< 0.001^*
45–59	3426	36.0	19.2	5.0
60–94	1920	20.2	18.6	5.1
Gender
Men	4861	51.1	19.1	5.0	0.169^**
Women	4646	48.9	19.3	4.8	0.169^**
Work
Employed	5254	55.3	19.5^a	4.6	< 0.001^*
Seeking work	348	3.7	18.7^bc	5.6
Doing housework	1492	15.7	19.2^ab	5.1
Retired	1684	17.7	18.6^c	5.1
Total sample	9507	100.0	19.2	4.9	–

^*Kruskal-Walls rank sum test used for comparing mean differences in the total score by age
^**Wilcoxon rank sum test used for comparing mean differences in the total score by gender
^a,b,cresults of LSD test; different letters indicate significant differences between groups

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