. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 9.

Published in final edited form as: J Prev Interv Community. 2009;37(2):86–99. doi: 10.1080/10852350902735551

Table 3.

Age differences on mental health^a

Mean
	Adolescent (A)	Young Adult (Y)	Older Adult (O)	Univariate F	Post- hoc
Brief Symptom Inventory age and gender-normed T- scores^b
Depression	47.94	67.18	68.69	54.10 (2, 782)^***	O, Y>A
Anxiety	51.64	62.77	62.34	17.44 (2, 782)^***	O, Y>A
Somatization	50.95	54.60	58.62	10.75 (2, 782)^***	O>Y>A
Obsessive-Compulsive	50.96	62.00	60.98	21.77 (2, 782)^***	Y, O>A
Interpersonal Sensitivity	48.44	64.15	62.80	34.06 (2, 782)^***	Y, O>A
Hostility	54.93	65.82	57.60	15.49 (2, 782)^***	Y>A, O
Phobic Anxiety	51.13	63.85	63.68	19.08 (2, 782)^***	O, Y>A
Paranoid Ideation	54.42	72.32	67.71	50.56 (2, 782)^***	Y>O>A
Psychoticism	51.24	73.13	71.43	44.18 (2, 782)^***	Y, O>A

Age differences controlling for gender and race

MANOVA F=10.40 (18, 1550), p<.001;

p<.05,

^**

p<.01,

^***

p<.001