Table 1.

Study Sample Descriptives; Study of Midlife in the United States

Age (years)	56.5 (12.1)
Men	734 (43.3%)
Non-Hispanic white	1,459 (86.0%)
Education, adult: high school or less	509 (30.3%)
Some college but no Bachelor’s degree	502 (29.9%)
Family-size-adjusted income-poverty ratio as adult	5.2 (4.2)
Social strain, adult (range 0–3)	0.98 (0.45)
Family on welfare (>6 months) as child	119 (7.0%)
Financially worse off than average family	176 (10.6%)
Neither parent completed high school	441 (26.7%)
Parent death in childhood	113 (6.7%)
Parents divorced/separated in childhood	201 (11.9%)
Abuse by parent, sometimes or often	613 (36.1%)
Childhood economic adversity score (range 0–3)	0.43 (0.68)
Childhood social adversity score (range 0–3)	0.55 (0.65)
Childhood total adversity score (range 0–6)	0.98 (1.03)
Cortisol waking value (log nmol/L)	2.64 (0.35)
Cortisol morning peak (log nmol/L)	2.98 (0.36)
Cortisol evening nadir (log nmol/L)	1.13 (0.46)
Cortisol diurnal dynamic range (log nmol/L)	1.85 (0.43)
Cortisol diurnal area under the curve (log(nmol/L)-hr)	29.1 (5.8)

Note: Sample size 1,696; Mean (standard deviation) for continuous; number (%) for categories.