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. 2026 Jul 13;14:1898956. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1898956

Table 3.

Descriptive statistics for continuous variables.

Variable M SD Min Max
Sociodemographic
Age (years) 32.0 10.7 18 67
Financial situation (1–10) 6.67 1.47 1 10
Health and lifestyle
Healthy eating attention (1–5) 3.25 0.79 1 5
Daily vegetables (1–6) 4.07 1.43 1 6
Daily fruit (1–6) 4.05 1.41 1 6
Fast food consumption (1–6) 2.27 1.05 1 6
Ready meal consumption (1–6) 2.55 1.38 1 6
Energy drink consumption (1–6) 1.95 1.55 1 6
Physical activity
PA frequency index (0.5–4.0) 1.65 0.84 0.5 4.0
PA importance (1–10) 7.31 2.05 1 10
PE enjoyment -secondary school (1–10) 6.50 2.92 1 10
PE enjoyment -university (1–10) 6.65 2.83 1 10
Motivator count (0–5) 3.26 1.04 0 5
Barrier count (0–5) 2.13 1.10 0 5
Wellbeing
Wellbeing index (1–4) 2.71 0.56 1.0 4.0
Cheerful and good-humored 3.18 0.65 1 4
Calm and relaxed 2.60 0.78 1 4
Active and vigorous 2.77 0.73 1 4
Woke up fresh and rested 2.23 0.84 1 4
Daily life full of interesting things 2.77 0.74 1 4

Wellbeing index: mean of five items, 1 = not at all characteristic, 4 = completely characteristic (α = 0.808). PA frequency index: composite of weekly sport frequency (Q20) and sport activity frequency from Q31, range 0.5–4.0. Motivator count and barrier count: sum of endorsed items from Q35 and Q36, respectively, (range 0–5).