Table 1.
Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning by Region: Regional Variation in Gender Difference
| Mean score for cognitive functioning | Range | North | South | Regional difference in gender disparity in cognition? | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | Mean gender difference | Men | Women | Mean gender difference | |||||
| N | 351 | 394 | 334 | F-test | p < |t| | |||||
| Episodic memory | Immediate | 0–10 | 5.58 | 4.80 | 0.78*** | 5.04 | 4.61 | 0.43*** | 3.19 | .081 |
| Delayed | 0–10 | 4.19 | 3.44 | 0.75*** | 3.80 | 3.48 | 0.32* | 4.22 | .046 | |
| Mental status | Date naming | 0–4 | 2.83 | 2.13 | 0.70*** | 3.19 | 2.75 | 0.44*** | 3.06 | .087 |
| Naming prime minister | 0–1 | 0.45 | 0.27 | 0.18*** | 0.69 | 0.45 | 0.24*** | 0.64 | .427 | |
| Backward count from 20 | 0–2 | 0.93 | 0.52 | 0.41*** | 1.51 | 1.25 | 0.26*** | 2.85 | .098 | |
| Serial 7s | 0–5 | 1.68 | 0.65 | 1.03*** | 2.42 | 1.77 | 0.65*** | 3.56 | .065 | |
| Summary index | 0–32 | 15.64 | 11.84 | 3.80*** | 16.69 | 14.37 | 2.32*** | 5.37 | .025 | |
Notes. Scores are standardized by age categories.
*p < .05, ***p < .001 indicate gender differences in within each region.