Table 6 “Social isolation” definition by respondents’ gender, living arrangement and years of education
Participants’ characteristics | Social isolation definitions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Personal feeling | Both voluntary and suffered condition | Punishment | Deprivation of meaningful relationships and contacts | Suffered condition | Voluntary condition | No answer | p | |
Gender, N(%) | ||||||||
Males | 0 (0.0) | 3 (75.0) | 12 (75.0) | 15 (50.0) | 14 (58.3) | 18 (50.0) | 6 (28.6) | 0.108 |
Female | 1 (100.0) | 1 (25.0) | 4 (25.0) | 15 (50.0) | 10 (41.7) | 18 (50.0) | 15 (71.4) | |
Sub-total | 1 (100.0) | 4 (100.0) | 16 (100.0) | 30 (100.0) | 24 (100.0) | 36 (100.0) | 21 (100.0) | |
Living arrangement, N(%)* | 0.389 | |||||||
With partner and others | 0(0.0) | 2(33.3) | 1(7.1) | 6(20.7) | 4(19.0) | 3(8.8) | 4(14.8) | |
Only with partner | 0(0.0) | 2(33.3) | 8(57.1) | 12(41.4) | 8(38.1) | 20(58.8) | 16(59.3) | |
With others without a partner | 0(0.0) | 1(16.7) | 1(7.1) | 1(3.4) | 0(0.0) | 3(8.8) | 4(14.8) | |
Alone | 1(100.0) | 1(16.7) | 4(28.6) | 10(34.5) | 9(42.9) | 8(23.5) | 3(11.1) | |
Sub-total | 1(100.0) | 6(100.0) | 14(100.0) | 29(100.0) | 21(100.0) | 34(100.0) | 27(100.0) | |
Years of education, N(%) | ||||||||
< 5 | 0(0.0) | 0(0.0) | 0(0.0) | 1(3.1) | 0(0.0) | 1(2.8) | 1(4.5) | 0.387 |
5–7 | 0(0.0) | 1(33.3) | 4(30.8) | 8(25.0) | 11(45.8) | 9(25.0) | 10(45.5) | |
8–12 | 1(50.0) | 2(66.7) | 6(46.2) | 16(50.0) | 9(37.5) | 19(52.8) | 8(36.4) | |
13 | 0(0.0) | 0(0.0) | 3(23.1) | 6(18.8) | 2(8.3) | 7(19.4) | 2(9.1) | |
>13 | 1(50.0) | 0(0.0) | 0(0.0) | 1(3.1) | 2(8.3) | 0(0.0) | 1(4.5) | |
Sub-total | 2(100.0) | 3(100.0) | 13(100.0) | 32(100.0) | 24(100.0) | 36(100.0) | 22(100.0) | |