Table 4 Sense of Coherence associated with severe psychosomatic symptoms among 16 and 19-year-old boys and girls in Västmanland County, Sweden.
SOC | Severe psychosomatic symptoms >1 SD from mean | Sense of coherence score limits classified by quartile | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |||
n | % | n | % | |||
Total | 190 | 9.4 | 502 | 25.4 | ||
Strong SOC | 10 | 1.8 | 45 | 9.2 | 73–91 | 70–91 |
Fairly strong SOC | 16 | 3.2 | 72 | 14.1 | 63–72 | 60–69 |
Fairly weak SOC | 53 | 11.3 | 121 | 26.1 | 54–62 | 51–59 |
Weak SOC | 111 | 21.7 | 264 | 51.6 | 13–53 | 16–50 |
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