Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for demographic, SES disadvantage, psychosocial, behavioral and health variables.

	%	M	SD	Range
Demographic covariates
Age		58.07	11.57	35 – 85
Gender
Male	45.2
Female	54.8
Race/ethnicity
White	92.2
Non-white	7.8
SES disadvantage scores
Childhood		1.87	1.40	0 –6
MIDUS I Adult		4.58	2.62	0 – 10
MIDUS II Adult		4.30	2.68	0– 10
Cumulative (childhood, MI and MII adult)		10.75	5.30	0 – 24
Health condition index		5.07	3.46	0 – 32
Health behavior covariates
Physical activity summary score		29.92	10.56	9 – 54
Fast food consumption frequency		2.43	0.91	1 – 5
Alcohol use (last month)
Non-drinker or rarely drink	32.0
Light drinker (less than once a week)	28.2
Moderate+ drinker (once a week or more)	39.8
Smoking status
Non-smoker	55.7
Ex-smoker	32.9
Current smoker	11.4
Perceived mastery/control covariates
Personal mastery		5.79	1.00	1.25 –7.00
Perceived constraints		2.40	1.09	1 – 7.00
Social contact and support covariates
Frequency of contact with family		5.98	1.44	1 – 8
Frequency of contact with friends		5.71	1.68	1 – 8
Perceived social support - family		3.54	0.59	1 – 4
Perceived social support - friends		3.33	0.64	1 – 4
Distress covariates
Perceived stress		21.59	6.17	10 – 48
Depressive symptomatology		7.90	7.66	0 – 49
Anxious symptomatology		16.51	4.48	11– 47
Positive experience frequency		2.27	0.28	1.39 – 2.87
Positive affect		44.80	10.18	14 – 70