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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 26.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2007 Jun;22(2):380–385. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.2.380

Table 1.

Means, Standard Deviations, and Bivariate Correlations of Study Variables

Variable M (SD) Womena HRSD MMSE CIRS KPSS Negative affect Sociability Activity Positive affect Suicide ideationa (n = 37; 8%)
Age 74.92 (6.52) −.12** .06 −.24** .27** .26** −.03 −.08 −.12* .05 .00
Womena −.24** −.13** −.04 −.17** −.25** −.19** .14** −.03 −.03
HRSD 8.73 (6.34) −.12* .29** .42** .57** .14** −.38** −.29** .44**
MMSE 28.03 (1.88) −.18** −.21** −.09* −.05 .00 .07 −.06
CIRS 7.37 (2.87) .59** .18** .07 −.25** −.11* .14**
KPSS 80.06 (11.35) .24** .16** −.33** −.10* .16**
Negative affect 7.68 (4.02) .14** −.34** −.44** .25**
Sociability 9.03 (1.69) −.04 −.03 −.04
Activity 8.55 (2.81) .41** −.14**
Positive affect 10.33 (2.71) −.19**

Note. There were 290 women (63%). CIRS = Cumulative Illness Rating Scale; HRSD = Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression; KPSS = Karnofsky Performance Status Scale; MMSE = Mini-Mental State Exam. Negative affect, Sociability, Activity, and Positive affect are subclusters of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory.

a

Dichotomous variable; point biserial correlation.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.