Skip to main content

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of individual variables and by psychological distress

From: Associations between family social circumstances and psychological distress among the university students of Bangladesh: To what extent do the lifestyle factors mediate?

Characteristics

Total

Psychological distress

P-value*

Yes

No

M (SD)/% (n)

M (SD)/% (n)

M (SD)/% (n)

Age (Mean; Std. deviation)

22.4 (2.3)

22.2 (2.3)

22.7 (2.3)

0.007

Gender

    

 Male

46.9 (348)

54.3 (214)

45.7 (180)

0.001

 Female

53.1 (394)

37.9 (132)

62.1 (216)

 

Childhood poverty

    

 No

55.3 (410)

42.0 (172)

58.0 (238)

0.012

 Yes

27.5 (204)

54.4 (111)

45.6 (93)

 

 Don’t remember

17.2 (128)

49.2 (63)

50.8 (65)

 

Family socio-economic position

    

 High

30.2 (224)

46.0 (103)

54.0 (121)

0.185

 Medium

59.0 (438)

45.2 (198)

54.8 (240)

 

 Low

10.8 (80)

56.3 (45)

43.8 (35)

 

Parents’ marital status

    

 Married

92.6 (687)

47.3 (325)

52.7 (362)

0.192

 Unmarried

7.4 (55)

38.2 (21)

61.8 (34)

 

Living with family

    

 Yes

80.5 (597)

45.4 (271)

54.6 (326)

0.170

 No

19.5 (145)

51.7 (75)

48.3 (70)

 

Physical inactivity

    

 Inactive

41.8 (310)

52.3 (162)

47.7 (148)

0.014

 Moderately active

24.9 (185)

38.9 (72)

61.1 (113)

 

 Active

33.3 (247)

45.3 (112)

54.7 (135)

 

Smoking

    

 Never smoker

70.6 (524)

47.3 (248)

52.7 (276)

0.019

 Current smoker

22.6 (168)

39.9 (67)

60.1 (101)

 

 Former smoker

6.7 (50)

62.0 (31)

38.0 (19)

 

Alcohol consumption

    

 Never

89.9 (667)

47.4 (316)

52.6 (351)

0.359

 Sometimes

8.5 (63)

38.1 (24)

61.9 (39)

 

 Regularly

1.6 (12)

50.0 (6)

50.0 (6)

 

Fruit consumption

    

 Rarely

24.1 (179)

52.0 (93)

48.0 (86)

0.015

 Sometimes

37.7 (280)

50.0 (140)

50.0 (140)

 

 Regularly

38.1 (283)

39.9 (113)

60.1 (170)

 

Poor sleep quality

    

 No

63.3 (470)

40.9 (192)

59.1 (278)

0.001

 Yes

36.7 (272)

56.6 (154)

43.4 (118)

 

 Total

100 (742)

46.6 (346)

53.4 (396)

 
  1. *Chi-square test for categorical variables and t-test for the continuous age variable