Table 2.
Description of the Sample According to Participants' Stereotypes toward Mental Health during Retirement
| Retirement stereotypes toward mental health |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Negative | Positive | ||
| Characteristic | (N = 782) | (N = 229) | p 1 |
| Age (years) | 64.49 | 64.83 | .640 |
| Sex | .734 | ||
| Male | 335 | 101 | |
| Female | 447 | 128 | |
| Race | .077 | ||
| Whites | 596 | 159 | |
| Non-Whites | 29 | 8 | |
| Undisclosed | 157 | 62 | |
| Employment | .873 | ||
| Retired | 277 | 77 | |
| Employed | 264 | 82 | |
| Housewife | 19 | 7 | |
| Undisclosed | 222 | 63 | |
| Marital status | .194 | ||
| Single | 51 | 23 | |
| Married | 476 | 142 | |
| Widowed | 220 | 53 | |
| Divorced/separated | 35 | 11 | |
| Self-rated health | 4.01 | 4.01 | .944 |
| Work attitude | 4.03 | 4.08 | .422 |
| Functional health | 1.92 | 1.97 | .631 |
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).