Table 1.
Description of the Sample According to Participants' Stereotypes toward Physical Health during Retirement
| Retirement stereotypes toward physical health |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive | ||
| Characteristic | (N = 770) | (N = 241) | p 1 |
| Age (years) | 64.72 | 64.09 | .379 |
| Sex | .450 | ||
| Male | 327 | 109 | |
| Female | 443 | 132 | |
| Race | .771 | ||
| Whites | 579 | 176 | |
| Non-Whites | 27 | 10 | |
| Undisclosed | 164 | 55 | |
| Employment | .084 | ||
| Retired | 266 | 88 | |
| Employed | 254 | 92 | |
| Housewife | 18 | 8 | |
| Undisclosed | 232 | 53 | |
| Marital status | .146 | ||
| Single | 53 | 21 | |
| Married | 467 | 151 | |
| Widowed | 219 | 54 | |
| Divorced/separated | 31 | 15 | |
| Self-rated health | 4.02 | 3.96 | .288 |
| Work attitude | 4.04 | 4.07 | .569 |
| Functional health | 1.91 | 2.00 | .265 |
Note. Table values are mean ± SD for continuous variables and n for categorical variables.
1
The p value is for t-test (continuous variables) or χ2 test (categorical variables).