. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 10.

Published in final edited form as: Illn Crises Loss. 2013;21(3):185–202. doi: 10.2190/IL.21.3.b

Table 1.

Sample Characteristics by Cause of Death and Death Expectedness, Living After Loss Study (n=325)

	Cause of Death		Death Expectedness
	Cancer n=112	Non Cancer n=213	Expected, Cancer n=89	Not Expected, Cancer n=23	Expected, Non Cancer n=95	Not Expected, Non Cancer n=118
% Female	52%	65% ^*	55%	39%	63%	67% ^*
% White	82%	87%	81%	87%	86%	87%
% College Degree	50%	41%	46%	65%	40%	42%
Mean Age (Std Dev) range 50–93	66.88 (10.03)	71.13 (10.57) ^***	66.99 (9.42)	66.48 (12.34)	73.96 ^a (9.43)	68.86 (10.92) ^***
Mean Years Married (Std Dev) range 1–70	37.06 (16.39)	41.39 (17.11) ^*	37.77 (15.85)	34.33 (18.44)	46.13 ^a (15.27)	37.58 (17.61) ^***

Notes:

p< .05,

^**

p<.01,

^***

p<.001 Statistically significant differences were assessed with independent samples t-tests for the two-group cause of death comparison and with Chi-Square (sex, race, education) and One-Way ANOVA (age, years married) for the four-group death expectedness comparisons.

Scheffe post-hoc pairwise comparison tests revealed that the expected, non-cancer group was different from the other three groups.