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Published in final edited form as: J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2015 Nov;21(10):851–860. doi: 10.1017/S1355617715000697

Table 4. Results of Regression Analyses Examining the Association Between Physical Activity with Cognition.

	Attention/Executive Function				Episodic Memory				Language Abilities
	β	b	SE b	p	β	b	SE b	p	β	b	SE b	p
*Block 1*
Constant	--	20.15	19.89	0.32	--	37.53	6.82	<0.01	--	48.33	5.76	<0.01
Age	-0.26	-0.48	0.27	0.09	-0.33	-0.22	0.09	0.02	-0.30	-0.16	0.08	0.045
Sex (1 = males; 0 = females)	-0.11	-3.69	5.09	0.47	-0.29	-3.70	1.75	0.04	0.13	1.34	1.47	0.37
Ejection fraction	0.04	0.05	0.18	0.79	-0.06	-0.03	0.06	0.67	-0.10	-0.04	0.05	0.50
Depression (1 = yes; 0 = no)	-0.26	-10.92	6.46	0.10	0.06	-0.86	2.21	0.70	0.05	0.57	1.87	0.76
F	1.24 (p = 0.31)				2.80 (p = 0.04)				1.59 (p = 0.19)
R²	0.10				0.20				0.12
*Block 2*
Constant	--	6.16	20.05	0.76	--	33.16	6.94	<0.01	--	43.70	5.70	<0.01
Average daily steps per day	0.31	0.003	0.00	0.03	0.27	0.001	0.00	0.049	0.35	0.001	0.00	0.01
F Δ	5.03 (p = 0.03)				4.11 (p = 0.049)				6.85 (p = 0.01)
Δ R²	0.09				0.07				0.12
Model F	2.09 (p = 0.085)				3.21 (p = 0.02)				2.81 (p = 0.03)
Model R²	0.19				0.27				0.24

Note. β = standardized beta coefficient; SE b = standard error of the unstandardized beta coefficient; beta values for constants are unstandardized beta coefficients