TABLE 1.
Descriptive Statistics from the Midlife Development in the United States Study
| Variable | Range | Mean | SD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life evaluation:a | |||
| Past life evaluation (wave 1) . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–10 | 7.201 | 1.954 |
| Current life evaluation (wave 1) . . . . . . . | 0–10 | 7.661 | 1.656 |
| Future life evaluation (wave 1) . . . . . . . . | 0–10 | 8.258 | 1.699 |
| Current life evaluation (wave 2) . . . . . . . | 0–10 | 7.849 | 1.555 |
| Childhood adversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–11 | 2.630 | 2.094 |
| Demographic: | |||
| Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 20–74 | 46.981 | 13.110 |
| Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–1 | .513 | |
| Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–1 | .067 | |
| Married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–1 | .643 | |
| Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–1 | .057 | |
| Divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–1 | .154 | |
| Social status: | |||
| Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 4–20 | 13.809 | 2.606 |
| Income (logged) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | −2.30–12.61 | 9.639 | 1.587 |
| Health: | |||
| Smoker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–1 | .227 | |
| Obese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–1 | .280 | |
| Sedentary lifestyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 0–1 | .015 | |
| Serious medical condition (wave 1) . . . . | 0–1 | .302 | |
| Chronic medical condition (wave 1) . . . | 0–1 | .738 | |
| Incident serious medical condition (wave 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
0–1 | .333 | |
| Incident chronic medical condition (wave 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
0–1 | .335 |
Note.—Number of observations is 2,956 for wave 1 variables and 1,680 for wave 2 variables. SDs of binary variables are omitted.
a
For wave 2 analyses, the average of past life evaluation (wave 1) and current life evaluation (wave 1) is the measure of reflective life evaluation. Future life evaluation (wave 1) is the measure of prospective life evaluation.