Table 1.

Mean performance scores on affective and cognitive measures by age

Measure	Younger	Older	t
Total N	20	20	-
Men	4	6	-
Women	16	14	-
Age	21.60 (3.34)	70.45 (8.27)	-
Education	14.10 (2.04)	16.70 (2.32)	3.33**
Health	3.25 (.79)	3.55 (1.19)	0.94
Far-Vision	30.25 (16.26)	49.50 (38.56)	2.06*
Contrast Sensitivity	1.48 (.19)	1.34 (.27)	1.90
Near-Vision	23.25 (4.94)	45.50 (41.64)	2.37*
FTPa	54.20 (10.02)	36.95 (11.60)	5.03***
LOTb	4.10 (4.63)	6.42 (5.26)	1.46
CES-Dc	14.70 (8.69)	8.89 (7.87)	2.18*
PAd	29.20 (8.56)	31.83 (6.99)	1.03
NAd	17.15 (5.97)	12.72 (3.71)	2.71*
MMSEe	-	28.60 (1.67)	-
Shipleyf	14.40 (3.73)	16.30 (2.08)	1.99
Digit Forwardg	6.84 (1.30)	7.00 (1.41)	0.36
Digit Backg	5.21 (1.47)	5.25 (1.25)	0.09
ANTh	144.25 (162.00)	122.30 (101.08)	0.51

Note: Standard deviations are in parentheses

^aFuture Time Perspective scale (Carstensen & Lang, 1996)

^bLife Orientation Test (Scheier & Carver, 1985)

^cCenter for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (Radloff, 1977)

^dPositive and negative affective subscales of the PANAS (Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988)

^eMini-Mental State Examination (Folstein, Folstein, & McHugh, 1975)

^fShipley Vocabulary Test (Zachary, 1986)

^gForward digit-span and backward digit-span of the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (Weschler, 1981)

^hExecutive function subset of the Attentional Network Test (Fan, McCandliss, Sommer, Raz, & Posner, 2002)

Age groups differ significantly:

^***p < .001,

^**p < .01,

^*p < .05