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Published in final edited form as: Act Adapt Aging. 2012 Sep 18;36(3):242–260. doi: 10.1080/01924788.2012.702306

Table 3.

Correlations among Participant Characteristics, Cognition, and Self-Reported Activity

	Age	Education	Health	Depressive Symptoms	Cognition
	Age	Education	Health	Depressive Symptoms	MMSE	WRAT	Speed	Memory: Immediate	Memory: Delayed
Activity Level
Frequency	−0.04	0.16 ^**	0.20 ^**	−0.25 ^**	0.07	0.05	0.14 ^**	0.12 ^**	0.10 ^*
Variety	−0.07	0.15 ^**	0.15 ^**	−0.26 ^**	0.06	0.04	0.12 ^**	0.11 ^**	0.06
Activity Type
Intellectual	0.04	0.26 ^**	0.17 ^**	−0.14 ^**	0.12 ^**	0.21 ^**	0.15 ^**	0.14 ^**	0.11 ^**
Intellectual	−0.01	0.24 ^**	0.14 ^**	−0.15 ^**	0.12 ^**	0.18 ^**	0.12 ^**	0.16 ^**	0.11 ^**
Social	−0.04	−0.04	0.09 ^*	−0.25 ^**	−0.01	−0.15 ^**	0.08 ^*	0.05	0.03
	−0.10 ^*	0.05	0.09 ^*	−0.22 ^**	0.02	−0.04	0.11 ^**	0.04	0.02
Physical	0.04	0.14 ^**	0.19 ^**	−0.19 ^**	−0.03	0.06	0.04	0.04	0.01
Physical	0.02	0.13 ^**	0.14 ^**	−0.16 ^**	−0.03	0.05	−0.01	0.00	−0.01
Creative	−0.05	−0.01	0.07	−0.15 ^**	0.02	−0.07	0.06	0.12 ^**	0.10 ^*
Creative	−0.04	0.01	0.05	−0.18 ^**	0.06	−0.08 ^*	0.06	0.13 ^**	0.08 ^*
Passive	−0.04	0.07	0.06	−0.06	−0.02	−0.03	0.03	−0.02	0.00
Passive	−0.06	0.07	0.08 ^*	−0.10 ^**	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01

Note.

p < 0.05.

^**

p < 0.01.

MMSE = Mini-mental state exam; WRAT = Wide Range Achievement Test. For each activity type, correlations for both Frequency (top values) and Variety (bottom values) are presented.