Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of key variables (Study 1)
| Variable | Japanese | Americans | ||||
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| N | M | SD | N | M | SD | |
| Age | 1027 | 54.36 | 14.15 | 1805 | 56.85 | 12.62 |
| Gender (% of female) | 1027 | 50.8% | 1805 | 54.7% | ||
| SES | ||||||
| Subjective social status | 989 | 6.03 | 2.12 | 1769 | 6.50 | 1.86 |
| Education | 1015 | 4.24 | 1.69 | 1803 | 4.57 | 1.67 |
| Self-orientation | ||||||
| Self-esteem | 1021 | 31.02 | 5.58 | 1791 | 37.49 | 7.38 |
| Agency | 1023 | 1.83 | 0.60 | 1786 | 2.64 | 0.67 |
| Goal striving | 1019 | 2.60 | 0.65 | 1790 | 3.20 | 0.56 |
| Other-orientation | ||||||
| Sympathy | 1022 | 4.72 | 0.72 | 1788 | 4.73 | 0.94 |
| Agreeableness | 1024 | 2.63 | 0.63 | 1788 | 3.44 | 0.51 |
| Support to friends | 1018 | 2.50 | 0.56 | 638 | 3.64 | 0.45 |
| Support to spouse/partner | 761 | 2.87 | 0.62 | 461 | 3.85 | 0.27 |
| Support to family | 715 | 2.32 | 0.72 | 638 | 3.77 | 0.45 |