Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics by group.

Variables	Younger adults			Middle-aged adults		df	t
	M	SD		M	SD
Age (years)	26.17*	6.10		48.59*	4.93	85	-18.56
Education (years)	12.17	2.60		12.23	3.00	85	-0.11
Frequency of reading and writing habits	16.52	5.25		17.13	4.75	84	-0.56
MMSE	29.52	0.97		28.97	1.55	85	1.92
BDI	3.62	4.81		4.69	5.35	85	-0.98
SRQ	2.98	3.26		2.39	2.53	82	0.90
N	48	39

df: Degrees of freedom;

^*p≤0.001.