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. 2023 Jul 22;78(11):1824–1833. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbad101

Table 3.

Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analyses Examining the Association Between Cardiorespiratory Fitness (CRF) and Social Cognition, Controlling for Age, Sex, and Education

Social perception
(n = 46)
Affective ToM
(n = 46)
Cognitive ToM
(n = 47)
Control task
(n = 46)
Trail A
(n = 48)
Trail B
(n = 47)
B t (p) B t (p) B t (p) B t (p) B t (p) B t (p)
Step 1 Age −0.56 1.34 (.188) −0.50 1.39 (.172) −0.07 .12 (.903) 0.86 1.49 (.143) 0.40 .12 (.902) −0.05 .05 (.960)
Sex −8.85 2.55 (.014) −0.88 0.28 (.780) −1.26 0.28 (.779) −5.83 1.22 (.228) 8.06 2.89 (.006) 2.67 .29 (.772)
Education 0.47 0.87 (.392) 0.22 0.45 (.655) −0.59 0.80 (.426) 1.23 1.57 (.124) −1.00 2.23 (.031) −0.84 .57 (.570)
ΔR 2 F (p) 0.20, 3.39 (.027) 0.05, 0.74 (.532) 0.02, 0.36 (.783) 0.10, 1.58 (.208) 0.19, 3.37 (.027) 0.01, 0.11 (.953)
Step 2 CRF 0.18 0.62 (.538) 0.19 0.742 (.462) 0.68 1.88 (.067) −0.07 0.17 (.869) −0.16, 0.68 (.498) 0.41, 0.53 (.598)
ΔR 2 F (p) 0.01, 0.39 (.538) 0.01, 0.55 (.462) 0.08, 3.54 (.067) 0.00, 0.03 (.869) 0.01, 0.47 (.498) 0.01, 0.28 (.598)
R 2 F (p) 0.20, 2.60 (.050) 0.06, 0.69 (.604) 0.10 1.17 (.338) 0.10, 1.17 (.340) 0.20, 2.61 (.049) 0.01, 0.15 (.960)