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Table 2 Socio-demographic data for the seven samples (percentage of the respective samples)

From: Psychometric properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale (PMH-scale)

Characteristics

Students

Retest samples

Patients

Dresden Predictor Study samples

Retest sample 1

Retest sample 2

Retest sample 3

Stable healthy

Incidence

Stable mentally ill

Remission

Sample size

5406

167

1004

1294

1547

683

169

232

310

Age (years): mean (S.D.)

26.3 (4.0)

36.7 (12.9)

43.4 (13.0)

54.7 (17.1)

48.9 (8.4)

22.7 (1.8)

22.6 (1.8)

22.7 (1.8)

22.7 (1.8)

Gender (%)

         

 Female

55.5

68.9

49.9

43.9

74.8

100

100

100

100

 Male

44.5

31.1

50.1

56.1

25.2

-

-

-

-

Marital status (%)

         

 Single

30.3

12.6

34.6

21.6

8.3

35.0

40.2

37.1

35.2

 Partnership

40.0

36.5

2.1

1.1

7.9

60.6

56.8

57.8

59.7

 Married

0.3

43.7

51.7

57.0

62.8

4.2

3.0

5.2

4.8

 Divorced

0.3

6

9.9

9.1

15.7

0

0

0

0

 Widowed

0

1.2

1.7

11.2

5.3

0.1

0

0

0.3

Occupation (%)

         

 Self-employed

-

6.7

-

-

2.7

0.3

1.4

1.1

1.4

 Manual worker/technician

-

8.6

-

-

9.3

12.5

13.7

16.0

13.7

 Simple/mid-level employee

-

66.9

-

-

61.5

51.4

47.9

54.3

68.3

 White-collar/executive employee

-

4.3

-

-

13.6

4.2

2.7

4.3

5.8

 Other (students, pensioner etc.)

100

13.5

20.5

39.4

12.7

31.6

34.2

24.5

24.5

Employment (%)

         

 Full time

-

66.5

47.7

32.0

45.3

29.6

26.6

27.6

28.7

 Part time

-

25.1

18.4

17.25

21.3

17.7

15.4

15.5

19.0

 Non-working

-

8.4

6.8

8.0

15.9

50.4

54.4

49.1

46.8

 Unemployed

-

0

6.5

3.3

17.5

2.4

3.6

7.8

5.5