. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2016 May 12;38(8):887–899. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2016.1172558

Table 1.

Demographic, cognitive, and clinical variables

	No Suicide Thoughts (N=139)		Suicide Thoughts (N=46)

	M	SD or %	M	SD or %
Age^**	59.02	3.77	57.67	2.16
Age in Vietnam^**	20.89	3.28	19.71	1.68
Total years of education^*	15.20	2.55	14.27	1.90
Race (N, % Caucasians)	129	92.80%	42	91.3%
Handedness (N, % right handed)	R: 105, L: 20	75.5%	R: 38, L: 6	82.6%
AFQT (percentile)	62.8	24.3	64.8	23.2
WAIS-III FS IQ	106.11	14.60	105.02	14.14
BDI^***	5.02	5.29	21.17	10.25
HAS^***	2.05	2.62	6.21	4.59

Notes. M=Mean, SD=standard deviation. AFQT=Armed Forces Qualification Test. WAIS = Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III for cognitive abilities, FSIQ = full scale IQ, VIQ= verbal IQ, PIQ = performance IQ BDI = Beck Depression Inventory HAS = Hamilton Anxiety Scale. Groups were compared on these variables using t-tests and chi-square tests, equal variance not assumed.

Significance level: two-tailed tests; p<.05^*, p<.01^**, p<.001^***.