Table 1.

Demographic and psychosocial data for African American and White American caregivers

	African American Caregivers		White American Caregivers
Measures	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	t
Age of caregiver	58.17	8.31	67.22	10.23	3.56a
Education level	2.73	1.44	2.96	1.52	0.55
Annual family income	6.83	2.14	7.65	1.30	1.71
Duration of caregiving	60.13	54.38	70.39	31.20	0.81
John Henryism active coping	49.53	6.29	44.70	8.56	−2.37b
ADL	11.21	3.79	10.26	4.32	−0.84
IADL	18.07	3.06	16.30	4.32	−1.66
RMBPC	38.17	15.17	38.09	15.16	−0.02
Religious coping (RCOPE)	25.37	3.46	18.22	5.29	−5.62a
Depression (CES-D)	14.70	10.69	15.61	9.08	0.33
Global Stress (PSS)	17.63	7.94	18.70	5.08	0.59
Daily cortisol slope	−24.73	8.86	−31.79	5.98	−3.08a

Note: ADL = Activities of daily living, IADL = Instrumental activities of daily living, RMBPC = Revised memory and behavior problems.

Note: The df = 51 for the t-tests.

Note: For education level, 2 = some college. For annual family income, 6 = between $25,000 and $30,000.

^ap < 0.001.

^bp < 0.05.

SD: standard deviation.