Health and suffering are associated with social support: a cross-sectional study of women and mothers with exhaustion and pain

Table 5 Linear regression models with health and suffering (HSS) as the criterion variable among women in rehabilitation and among healthy women

	Mothers in rehabilitation (n = 129)			Childless women in rehabilitation (n = 37)			Healthy mothers (n = 108)			Healthy childless women (n = 21)
	b	SE (b)	β	b	SE (b)	β	b	SE (b)	β	b	SE (b)	β
Main model with MSPSS total sum score as single independent variable
Constant	8.89	2.24	-	10.173	4.842	-	20.55	2.889	-	17.184	9.169	-
MSPSS (total sum score)	0.31***	0.038	0.586	0.275**	0.08	0.453	0.252***	0.041	0.5099	0.249	0.135	0.389
R² (R²_adj)	0.343 (0.338)			0.253 (0.232)			0.26 (0.253)			0.151 (0.107)

HSS Health and Suffering Scale, MSPSS Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support; b, unstandardized coefficient; β, standardized coefficient; ***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01

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