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Published in final edited form as: J Appl Gerontol. 2016 Apr 11;37(8):990–1011. doi: 10.1177/0733464816642584

Table 2.

Sample Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Tests of Association Between Continuous Covariates and FE.

	Sample descriptive statistics (un-weighted)	No FE since age 60 (weighted)	FE since age 60 (weighted)	No FE in last 6 months (weighted)	FE in last 6 months (weighted)
Age
M (SD)	72.5 (8.1)	72.6 (8.7)	73.1 (7.5)	72.7 (8.6)	71.4 (7.2)
Cognitive function^a
M (SD) (possible = 0-25)	22.0 (4.7)	22.2 (4.4)	21.6 (5.6)	22.2 (4.5)	20.9 (5.0)
Social network size^b
M (SD) (range = 0-49)	18.6 (9.6)	18.7 (9.6)	18.7 (9.3)	18.6 (9.6)	20.3 (9.4)
Perceived social support^c
M (SD) (possible 12-48)	40.5 (6.4)	41.2 (5.9)	36.6 (8.1)^**	40.9 (6.2)	37.0 (8.5)^*

Note. Descriptive statistics and sample sizes are un-weighted; all other analyses are weighted. All available data are presented for each cell (i.e., pairwise deletion is used). FE = financial exploitation; HRS AHEAD = Health and Retirement Study Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old; SNI = Social Network Index; ISEL = interpersonal support evaluation list.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01 in bivariate ANOVA tests for differences in FE since turning 60 and in last 6 months by predictor variable. All significance testing accounted for complex survey design (see text).

Assessed by brief telephone measure of cognitive status from the HRS AHEAD study.

SNI “Number of People in Social Network” measure.

ISEL total score.