Table 1.
Descriptive statistics
| Variable | Summary statistics |
|---|---|
| Individual PEAA: physical health (1–7), M (SD) | 5.1 (1.7) |
| Individual PEAA: mental health (1–7), M (SD) | 5.4 (1.6) |
| Individual PEAA: social engagement (1–7), M (SD) | 3.8 (1.8) |
| Age (16–94), M (SD) | 52.7 (18.2) |
| Female, n (%) | 1039 (51.8%) |
| Subjective socioeconomic status (1–10), M (SD) | 6.0 (1.4) |
| Cohabiting with a partner, n (%) | 1313 (65.4%) |
| General health (1–5), M (SD) | 3.4 (0.9) |
| HH optimisma (1–7), M (SD) | 4.5 (0.8) |
| HH conscientiousnessa (1–7), M (SD) | 5.9 (0.8) |
| HH age stereotypes: physical health (1–7), M (SD) | 4.2 (1.2) |
| HH age stereotypes: mental health (1–7), M (SD) | 4.5 (1.1) |
| HH age stereotypes: social engagement (1–7), M (SD) | 4.5 (1.2) |
| HH life goal: civic engagement (1–4), M (SD) | 2.2 (0.8) |
N = 2007. PEAA = perceived expectations for active aging. HH = household. Among control variables, only subjective socioeconomic status was administered to an independently selected random subsample of participants in a previous wave. Thus, only 909 participants from our subsample had valid values on this measure. Household measures had up to 35% of missing values. For each participant, household measures represented a mean of scores of their household members, which excluded target individuals’ own scores
aRaw mean scores are shown