Table 1

Sample characteristics at baseline

Sample characteristics	Men (n=2439)		Women (n=2222)
Sample characteristics	n	%	n	%
Group aged 40 years	1243	51.0	1224	55.1
Group aged 50 years	1196	49.0	998	44.9
Executive managers, leading managers	817	33.5	574	25.8
Non-manual salaried employees	632	25.9	713	32.1
Manual skilled and unskilled workers	990	40.6	935	42.1
Heavy alcohol consumption	604	24.8	511	23.0
Smokers	910	37.3	751	33.8
High physical activity	645	26.5	383	17.2
Obesity	270	11.1	178	8.0
Non-mental health morbidity	1049	43.0	1046	47.1
Muscular-skeletal pain	383	15.7	471	21.2
Living alone without children	323	13.2	252	11.3
Partnership without children	637	26.1	603	27.1
Living alone with children	42	1.7	161	7.3
Partnership with children	1437	58.9	1206	54.3
Low private life social conflicts	198	8.1	204	9.2
Low private life social support	245	10.1	190	8.6
Job tenure less than 1 year	394	16.2	243	10.9
High quantitative demands	642	26.3	489	22.0
High work pace	1022	41.9	1012	45.5
High emotional demands	282	11.6	410	18.5
Low social support from colleagues	1065	56.3	1166	47.5
Low social support from superiors	624	74.4	812	63.5
Low sense of community	379	15.5	252	11.3
Low meaning of work	130	5.3	93	4.2
High physical demands	185	7.6	110	5.0
Low opportunity for development	269	11.0	265	11.9
Low variation of work	492	20.2	465	20.9