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Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychol Personal Sci. 2015 Jun 29;6(7):814–822. doi: 10.1177/1948550615590199

Table 1.

Correlations among primary study variables

		Mean (SD)	Wave 1					Wave 2
		Mean (SD)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Wave 1	1. Gender
	2. Age	67.95 (9.09)	−.04^**
	3. Optimism	4.52 (.96)	.05^**	.02
	4. Health	3.30 (1.05)	−.01	−.08^**	.31^**
	5. Conditions	2.03 (1.39)	.02^*	.24^**	−.17^**	−.46^**
Wave 2	6. Optimism	4.50 (.96)	.06^**	−.03^*	.61^**	.29^**	−.18^**
	7. Health	3.19 (1.05)	.01	−.11^**	.29^**	.64^**	−.41^**	.31^**
	8. Conditions	2.43 (1.47)	.01	.23^**	−.18^**	−.46^**	.87^**	−.20^**	−.46^**

Note. N = 9790.

^*

p < .05

^**

p < .001.

Gender: −1 = male, 1 = female.