Table 4.
Descriptive statistics for positive mental wellbeing and depressive symptomatology at start and end of the study, by trajectory class
| Loneliness Trajectory Group |
Depression | Positive Mental Wellbeing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | T4 | T1 | T4 | |||||
| Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | |
| Friendship Subscale | ||||||||
| Average Increasing | 5.27 | 4.43 | 3.81 | 3.99 | 2.21 | 0.71 | 2.82 | 0.48 |
| High Decreasing | 3.74 | 3.53 | 6.50 | 5.16 | 2.63 | 0.55 | 2.15 | 0.72 |
| Low Increasing | 8.80 | 5.04 | 9.03 | 4.54 | 1.82 | 0.80 | 1.95 | 0.61 |
| Average Stable | 5.61 | 3.60 | 5.60 | 4.30 | 2.28 | 0.46 | 2.35 | 0.53 |
| High Stable | 2.69 | 2.78 | 2.83 | 3.12 | 2.74 | 0.46 | 2.83 | 0.48 |
| Isolation Subscale | ||||||||
| High Decreasing | 7.43 | 6.53 | 5.22 | 5.25 | 2.59 | 0.78 | 2.46 | 0.76 |
| Low Increasing | 4.40 | 4.40 | 8.86 | 6.75 | 2.54 | 0.62 | 2.47 | 0.91 |
| Elevated Stable | 6.25 | 3.77 | 6.30 | 4.43 | 2.22 | 0.53 | 2.30 | 0.61 |
| Low Stable | 3.11 | 2.97 | 3.40 | 3.43 | 2.64 | 0.52 | 2.67 | 0.56 |