. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 19.

Published in final edited form as: Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2014 Aug;35(8):620–627. doi: 10.3109/01612840.2014.895071

TABLE 2.

Descriptive Statistics for All Study Variables

	Females	Males
Variable	n = 390	n = 139	p value^a
Performance Measures Mean (SD)
MMSE	27.56 (2.40)	27.63 (2.11)	.78
RBMT	17.64 (4.38)	17.78 (4.13)	.74
Self-Report Measures Mean (SD)
Achievement	3.85 (0.36)	3.81 (0.37)	.33
Anxiety	3.23 (0.62)	3.11 (0.61)	.05
Capacity	3.06 (0.51)	2.95 (0.59)	.03
Change	2.52 (0.55)	2.51 (0.64)	.85
Locus	3.52 (0.49)	3.50 (0.55)	.72
Internal Strategy	3.43 (0.60)	3.41 (0.55)	.71
External Strategy	3.84 (0.67)	3.54 (0.71)	<.001
Task	3.85 (0.36)	3.90 (0.36)	.21
Covariates Mean (SD)
Age	76.87 (6.42)	75.76 (6.26)	.08
Education	12.81 (3.57)	14.00 (3.86)	.001
Caucasian^b n (%)	263 (67%)	98 (71%)	.51
Depression^c n (%)	69 (18%)	21 (15%)	.49

Note. MMSE = Mini-Mental State Exam; RBMT = Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test

p values obtained from Student’s t test for all variables except Caucasian and depression for which Pearson chi-square tests were used.

Caucasian is coded 1 for Caucasian and 0 otherwise.

Depression is coded 1 for depressed and 0 otherwise.