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4.3.2 Psychological health symptoms and Type of employmentAs mentioned earlier in Chapter 2, the 25 items measuring the Psychological healthsymptoms are further grouped into 3 subcategory scale using the measures describedby Dasberg and Shalif; 1978 representing three subscales of total mental health indexnamely : Free Floating Anxiety (FFA), Somatic Concomitants of Anxiety (SOM) andDepression (DEP) outlined as follows for each category. Hypothesis validation regardingPsychological health symptoms and Type of employment was carried out usingmultivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) with employment type as the fixedvariable and the three categories of Psychological health symptoms as dependentvariables. The sample consisted of 89 respondents who are organizational employed and55 respondents who are self employed.The Box's Test of Equality of Covariance Matrices a in Table 4.6 below shows Sig.value of .066 > .001 indicating the data have not violated the assumption ofhomogeneity of variance covariance matrices. On Table 4.7, referring to the valuesrecorded in the Sig. column for the Levene's Test of Equality of Error Variances a ,results shows none of the values reported significant or are more than .05 indicatingthat the test do not violate the assumption of equality of variance.Table 4.6Box's Test of Equality of CovarianceMatrices aBox’s M 12.140F 1.973df1 6df2 8.705E4Sig. .066Table 4.7Levene's Test of Equality of Error Variances aF df1 df2 Sig.FLOATING .688 1 142 .408SOMATIC 2.059 1 142 .154DEPRESSION 1.089 1 142 .29948