Table 1 Descriptive analysis of measures for different predictors of mental problems.

From: The role of social cognition skills and social determinants of health in predicting symptoms of mental illness

Variables

Statistical values

Percentage of cases mean scores

Females/males (F:M)

Participants

n = 2947

 Sex (F:M)

n = 1348: n = 1599

 Age [mean (SD)] (F:M)

43.02 (16.5):42.32 (16.5)

 Mean educational level (SD in years) (F:M)

5.4 (1.5):5.4 (1.9)

Assessment of social cognition skills (SCS) (F:M)

 Total percentage of face emotion recognition

62% (17%):62.3% (17%)

 Percentage of negative emotion recognition

46.7% (21%):45.2% (22%)

 Percentage of positive emotion recognition

79.7% (22%):81.6% (22%)

 Mean scores of affective empathy in intentional scenarios

5.5 (1.5):5.2 (1.5)

 Mean scores of affective empathy in accidental scenarios

4.9 (1.3):5.0 (1.3)

 Mean scores of cognitive empathy in intentional scenarios

6.6 (1.3):6.5 (1.3)

 Mean scores of cognitive empathy in accidental scenarios

4.9 (1.5):4.8(1.4)

Assessment of social determinants of health (SDH) (F:M)

 Social adverse factors (mean of experiences of discrimination and isolation)

0.7 (1.3):0.6 (1.3)

 Social adverse factors (mean of experiences of violence)

1.2 (0.6):1.2 (0.6)

 Social adverse factors (mean of experiences of social isolation)

4.4 (1.6):4.6 (1.6)

 Social protective factors (mean scores of family APGAR)

9.2 (8.9):9.4 (9.0)

 Social protective factors (mean of number of the participation in social groups)

0.43 (0.63):0.45 (0.69)

Assessment of psycho-physical factors

 Psychiatric antecedents (presence of general psychiatric antecedents across life)

0.18 (0.68):0.11 (0.47)

 Psychiatric antecedents (presence of affective psychiatric antecedents across life)

0.06 (0.33):0.03 (0.24)

 Psychical–somatic problems (mean of number of somatic symptoms)

5.6 (1.1):5.4 (1.0)

 Cognitive functioning (mean of motor programing task)

2.3 (0.7):2.3 (0.7)

 Cognitive functioning (mean of conflicting instructions tasks)

2.5 (0.6):2.6 (0.6)

 Cognitive functioning (mean of inhibitory verbal control task)

3.3 (2.1):3.4 (2.1)

 Cognitive functioning (mean of scores of the backwards digit span task)

2.8 (1.0):3.0 (0.9)

Assessment of symptoms of mental illness

 Presence of depression symptoms

1.2 (1.8):0.7 (1.4)

 Presence of anxiety symptoms

1.4 (1.7):0.7 (1.3)

 Presence of other symptoms (convulsions, sensorial perceptual symptoms etc.)

0.9 (0.9):0.7 (0.8)