tenseness: Tenseness Data from the Freiburg Complaint Checklist
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Tenseness Data from the Freiburg Complaint Checklist

Description

Data from the Freiburg Complaint Checklist. The data contain all 8 items corresponding to the scale Tenseness from the standardization sample of the Freiburg Complaint Checklist.

Format

A data frame containing data from the Freiburg Complaint Checklist. The item responses refer to the scale Tenseness and are measured on a 5-point Likert scale, where low values correspond to low frequencies or low intensities of the respective complaint and high values correspond to high frequencies or high intensities.

The data frame contains the following variables:

Clammy_hands: Do you have clammy hands?
Sweat_attacks: Do you have sudden attacks of sweating?
Clumsiness: Do you notice that you behave clumsily?
Wavering_hands: Do your hands shake frequently, for example when lighting a cigarette or when holding a cup?
Restless_hands: Do you notice that your hands are restless?
Restless_feet: Do you notice that your feet are restless?
Twitching_eyes: Do you notice involuntary twitching of your eyes?
Twitching_mouth: Do you notice involuntary twitching of your mouth?
Gender: Gender of the person.
Household: Whether the person lives alone or together with somebody else.
Income: Income, categorized from 1 (low income) to 11 (high income). For simplicity, income can be treated as a metric variable.
WestEast: Whether the person is from East Germany, the former GDR.
Abitur: Whether the person has Abitur, corresponding to A-levels.
Age: Age of the person.