Subjective health complaints in older adolescents are related to perceived stress, anxiety and gender – a cross-sectional school study in Northern Sweden

Table 7 Correlations between factors/indexes of perceived stress (pressure and demands; activation/high tempo), sleep, subjective health complaints (headache/upper respiratory infections; musculoskeletal pain), anxiety and depression in adolescents (Pearson correlation coefficients)

Factors/Indexes	Pressure and demands	Activation /high tempo	Sleep problems	Psycho-somatic	Headache /upper respiratory infections	Musculo- skeletal pain	HADS-anxiety	HADS-depression
Pressure and demands	1	0.68	0.48	0.63	0.48	0.44	0.71	0.52
Activation/high tempo	0.68	1	0.50	0.55	0.44	0.39	0.66	0.39
Sleep problems	0.48	0.50	1	0.56	0.41	0.44	0.53	0.39
Psychosomatic	0.63	0.55	0.56	1	0.58	0.55	0.71	0.49
Headache/upper respiratory infections	0.48	0.44	0.41	0.58	1	0.51	0.52	0.35
Musculoskeletal pain	0.44	0.39	0.44	0.55	0.51	1	0.45	0.30
HADS-anxiety	0.71	0.66	0.53	0.71	0.52	0.45	1	0.56
HADS-depression	0.52	0.39	0.39	0.49	0.35	0.30	0.56	1

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