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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers. 2011 Jun 20;79(4):741–762. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00700.x

Table 2.

Relations of age to personality, affect and cognitive variables before and after control of social desirability, and estimated indirect effects

Age Age after SD Stand. IE Boot. Unstand. IE Boot. 95% CI Age variance explained by SD(%) N
Social Desirability .23*
Self-report variables
Neuroticism −.21* −.12* −.10* −0.04 [−0.05, −0.03] 67.4 1130
Extraversion .01 −.02 .03* 0.01 [0.00, 0.02] NA 1136
Openness −.06 −.06 −.01 0.00 [−0.01, 0.00] NA 1139
Agreeableness .11* .04 .07* 0.02 [0 .01, 0.03] 86.8 1139
Conscientiousness .21* .15* .07* 0.02 [0.02, 0.03] 49.0 1134
PANAS Positive .16* .09* .07* 0.03 [0.02, 0.04] 68.4 1167
PANAS Negative −.17* −.13* −.05* − 0.01 [−0.02, −0.01] 41.5 1170
CES-D −.21* −.14* −.07* −0.03 [−0.04, −0.02] 55.6 1153
Anxiety Trait −.28* −.19* −.09* −0.05 [−0.07, −0.04] 54.0 1158
Life Satisfaction .17* .12* .06* 0.02 [0.03, 0.02] 50.2 1169
Cognitive variables
Fluid ability −.45* −.42* − .05 0.00 [0.00, 0.00] NA 694
Memory −.43* −.41* −.04 0.00 [0.00, 0.00] NA 709
Speed −.59* −.57* −.04 0.00 [0.00, 0.00] NA 711

Note – The relations of age to each personality, affect and cognitive variable before (Column 1 of the Table) and after (Column 2 of the Table) controlling for social desirability variation were examined in regression analyses. Percentages of age variance associated with social desirability are reported in Column 6. Age after SD is age relations after controlling for the variance in social desirability (SD) score. Stand. IE are standardized indirect effects; Boot.Unstand. IE are bootstrapped unstandardized indirect effects; Boot. 95% CI are bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals for the indirect effect.

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