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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2022 Nov 11;29(6):529–540. doi: 10.1017/S1355617722000510

Table 4.

Gender moderation of the association between leisure activity and cognitive change

Reasoning change
(N = 208)
Speed change
(N = 208)
Memory change
(N = 208)
Vocabulary change
(N = 208)
R2 = .25; f2 = .33;
F(7200) = 10.397a
R2 = .21; f2 = .26;
F(7200) = 7.887a
R2 = .12; f2 = .13;
F(7200) = 4.136a
R2 = .16; f2 = .19;
F(7200) = 6.060a
Model 3 ß p-value ß p-value ß p-value ß p-value
Age −.419 <.001 −.358 <.001 −.254 .001* −.350 <.001*
Gender −.681 .02* −.684 .02* −.207 0.51 −.515 0.09
Education 0.134 0.05 0.148 .02* 0.092 0.2 −.017 0.81
Family income 0.058 0.35 0.067 0.3 −.006 0.93 0.004 0.95
Baseline performance 0.084 0.28 0.065 0.42 −.360 <.001* −.131 0.07
Baseline LA 0.058 0.59 0.056 0.52 0.103 0.27 0.05 0.58
Baseline LA × gender 0.679 .02* 0.661 .03* 0.146 0.64 0.504 0.105

LA: leisure activity; ß: standardized regression coefficient; gender: F = 0, M = 1; family income: <75.000 = 0. >75.000 = 1; didn’t know = 2 (10 participants).

a

p < 0.0001.

*

p-values ≤ .05.