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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2007 Jun;22(2):341–353. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.2.341

Table 3.

Individual Differences as a Function of Age in Study 2

Age group
Younger
Older
Variable M SD M SD
Neuroticism* 9.63 5.32 7.23 6.07
Personal need for structure** 3.43 0.76 3.96 0.70
Authoritarianism 2.34 0.28 2.48 0.39
Positive affect** 30.83 7.61 36.62 6.86
Negative affect 14.04 3.15 13.02 6.76
Health* 5.94 1.20 5.26 1.33
Spirituality 2.96 1.48 3.47 1.11
Marital status (proportion single)** .91 0.28 .26 0.44
Ethnicity (proportion Caucasian) .80 0.40 .85 0.36
*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.