Table 1.
Demographic Description of Shielding American Indian Elder Samples.
| Total (N = 100) |
Northern Plains (n = 50) |
South Central (n = 50) |
χ2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | 72% | 66% | 78% | 1.79 | ||||
| Currently married | 52% | 56% | 48% | 0.64 | ||||
| Working now | 27% | 40% | 14% | 8.60** | ||||
| Post–high school education | 63% | 62% | 64% | 0.04 | ||||
| Speaks tribal language at least moderately well | 26% | 20% | 32% | 1.90 | ||||
| Receives financial assistance | 17% | 16% | 18% | 0.07 | ||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | t | df | |
| Age | 70.0 | 6.8 | 69.4 | 5.4 | 70.6 | 8.0 | 0.90 | 98 |
| Number of people in home | 2.4 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 2.73** | 98 |
| SF-12 Physical Component Summary | 41.9 | 10.7 | 43.7 | 10 | 40 | 11.2 | 1.74 | 94 |
| SF-12 Mental Component Summary | 51.8 | 10.5 | 49.9 | 11.4 | 53.6 | 9.2 | 1.72 | 94 |
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.