Table 1. Descriptive statistics for total sample and men and women, range, Cronbach’s α and correlation with age of key variables.
| Total | Men | Women | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | M | SD | Range | M | SD | M | SD | α | Correlation with age |
| Age | 39.53 | 14.96 | 18–80 | 42.9 | 14.73 | 37.07 | 14.64 | ||
| Happiness | 5.09 | 1.05 | 1–7 | 5.15 | 1.03 | 5.04 | 1.07 | .80 | .00 |
| Extraversion | 3.45 | .69 | 1.5–5 | 3.40 | .70 | 3.48 | .68 | .78 | −.02 |
| Neuroticism | 2.96 | .73 | 1.1–5 | 2.77 | .73 | 3.10 | .70 | .76 | −.08** |
| Quality of social relationships | 19.66 | 4.43 | 3–27 | 18.90 | 4.63 | 20.20 | 4.20 | .94 | −.39** |
| Emotion regulation ability | 98.48 | 14.15 | 65.10–134.90 | 96.58 | 15.08 | 99.86 | 13.29 | .80 | −.16** |
Notes.
**
p < .01.
N = 1,006.