. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 30.

Published in final edited form as: Clin Gerontol. 2009 Jan 1;32(1):44–59. doi: 10.1080/07317110802474643

TABLE 1.

Participant characteristics by racial group (standard deviations in parentheses)

Variable	Caucasian (n = 29)		African American (n = 31)		t Value	p Value
Age (years)	72.03	(6.49)	68.42	(8.30)	1.87	.066
Education (years)	13.55	(3.85)	13.168	(4.56)	0.36	.722
Health status	3.10	(0.77)	2.71	(0.74)	2.02	.048^*
Subjective Well Being	7.81	(1.23)	8.09	(1.08)	1.13	.261
VIQ scale score^a	9.34	(3.25)	7.23	(3.16)	2.56	.013^*
PIQ scale score^a	11.70	(3.13)	8.29	(2.87)	4.39	.0001^**

Note:

Verbal (VIQ) and nonverbal (PIQ) intelligence were estimated by the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) Vocabulary and Matrix Reasoning subtests. Mean scale scores are 10 with a 95% confidence interval between the scores of 8 and 12.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.