Table 1.
Baseline characteristics and scores on study variables for wives and husbands
| Variable | Wives | Husbands | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | |
| Age | 61.1** | 9.3 | 64.5 | 8.8 |
| Education in years | 12.6* | 2.8 | 12.7 | 3.3 |
| Number of chronic health conditions | 1.3** | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Depressive symptoms | 1.3** | 1.8 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
| Functional disability | 0.3* | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| % | % | |||
| Minority status | 11.0 | 11.3 | ||
| Individual-level discordant conditions | 34.4 | 35.7 | ||
| Couple-level discordant conditions | 51.5 | 51.5 |
Note. N = 3,991 couples.
*Significant gender difference at p < .05.
**Significant gender difference at p < .001.