Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics for the Study Variables
| Low level of depressive symptoms | High level of depressive symptoms | |||||
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| M/% | SD | Correlation with lifetime adversity | M/% | SD | Correlation with lifetime adversity | |
| Lifetime adversity | 1.92 | 1.92 | - | 2.08 | 1.95 | - |
| Disability | 0.74 | 1.77 | −0.07* | 2.42 | 3.50 | 0.14** |
| Quality of life | 26.22 | 5.46 | 0.04 | 20.82 | 6.80 | −0.13* |
| Cognitive functioning | 0.18 | 0.71 | 0.02 | −0.35 | 0.96 | −0.10* |
| Age | 61.80 | 9.49 | 0.16*** | 64.33 | 9.97 | 0.20*** |
| Gender (women) | 53.0 | − | −0.08* | 66.9 | - | −0.02 |
| Origin (non-Israeli-born) | 65.3 | - | 0.08* | 76.1 | - | 0.08 |
| Education | 3.21 | 1.66 | 0.07* | 2.38 | 1.62 | 0.08 |
| Marital status (married) | 83.9 | - | −0.19*** | 76.9 | - | −0.24*** |
| Household income | 26,132 | 31,486 | 0.03 | 18,879 | 18,968 | −0.00 |
Note. n = 874 and 372 for low and high level of depressive symptoms, respectively. Health markers refer to W2; lifetime adversity and background characteristics refer to W1. Correlation values represent Pearson coefficients except for coefficients for gender, origin, and marital status that represent point-biserial coefficients and those for education that represent Spearman’s rank coefficients.
*
p < .05,
**
p < .01,
***
p < .001.