Table 1.
Demographic information and cognitive measures of young and older adults
| Young adults (n = 31) |
Older adults (n = 30) | t | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | ||
| Age (years) | 22.68 | 3.07 | 67.30 | 5.10 | −41.24*** |
| Education (years) | 15.61 | 2.09 | 15.27 | 1.39 | 0.76 |
| Computer exposure | 1.23 | 0.43 | 1.73 | 0.78 | −3.13** |
| Virtual environment exposure | 2.48 | 0.72 | 2.97 | 0.18 | −3.60** |
| MMSE | 28.68 | 1.14 | 28.70 | 1.32 | −0.07 |
| MMQ-contentment | 50.55 | 12.19 | 46.50 | 11.04 | 1.36 |
| MMQ-ability | 54.45 | 9.60 | 50.18 | 10.83 | 1.63 |
| MMQ-strategy | 33.94 | 15.08 | 30.42 | 14.57 | 0.94 |
| WAIS block design | 42.87 | 4.62 | 33.33 | 6.71 | 6.42*** |
| Forward digit span | 8.74 | 0.58 | 7.73 | 0.83 | 5.51*** |
| Backward digit span | 6.74 | 1.53 | 5.20 | 1.42 | 4.08** |
M mean; SD standard deviation; MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination; MMQ Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire; WAIS Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV. ** p < .01, *** p < .001