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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Explore (NY). 2018 Jul 20;15(2):148–159. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2018.07.005

Table 1.

Participant characteristics and associations with demographic and socioeconomic indicators

Feel loved summary score
Feel loved VAS
Love yourself VAS
n % Mean (SD) p value* Mean (SD) p value* Mean (SD) p value*
Gender Female 312 76% 351 (61) 0.004 83 (21) 0.009 75 (21) 0.06
Male 100 24% 332 (77) 78 (21) 70 (23)
Ethnicity Hispanic 24 6% 370 (32) 0.030 88 (14) 0.12 82 (20) 0.048
Non-Hispanic 377 94% 344 (67) 81 (21) 74 (22)
Race White/Caucasian 348 85% 345 (65) 0.008 81 (21) 0.47 73 (22) <0.001
Non-Caucasian 52 13% 358 (67) 82 (22) 85 (19)
More than one race 11 3% 328 (76) 80 (22) 65 (27)
Education Some college 97 24% 352 (68) 0.010 84 (21) 0.020 78 (22) 0.010
College graduate 315 76% 344 (64) 81 (21) 73 (22)
Household Income $0-$50,000 157 39% 339 (73) 0.52 79 (23) 0.035 74 (24) 0.41
>$50,000 247 61% 352 (57) 84 (19) 74 (20)
IQR (25th-75th)
Feel loved summary score
Feel loved VAS
Love yourself VAS
n Mean SD 25th 75th ρ** p value ρ** p value ρ** p value
Age (yrs) 412 49.6 11.6 39.0 59.0 0.06 0.23 0.01 0.88 0.10 0.038
BMI (kg/m2) 412 29.4 7.2 24.1 32.7 0.01 0.82 0.03 0.53 0.01 0.77
Hourly Income ($) 324 26.34 15.51 16.2 32.1 0.07 0.23 0.17 0.17 0.01 0.87
*

Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test

**

Spearman Rho correlations;

Results of categorical comparisons bolded when p value < 0.01 VAS = 100 mm visual analog scale; SD, standard deviation; IQR, interquartile range (25th percentile to 75th percentile); BMI, body mass index