Table 1.

Weighted Descriptive Statistics: Nashville Stress and Health Study (n = 1,252).

	Mean	SD	Range
Allostatic load	2.29	1.70	0 – 8
Leukocyte telomere length (T/S ratio)	0.71	0.21	0.25 – 2.10
Parental status
Childless (reference)	0.30	0.46	0 – 1
Empty-nest parent	0.24	0.43	0 – 1
One child in home	0.23	0.42	0 – 1
Multiple children in home	0.22	0.42	0 – 1
Number of children in home	0.79	1.08	0 – 8
Age (in years)	44.32	11.72	22 – 69
Black (vs. white)	0.28	0.45	0 – 1
Female (vs. male)	0.52	0.50	0 – 1
Married (vs. single)	0.57	0.49	0 – 1
College (vs. less than college)	0.42	0.49	0 – 1
Financial resources	0.17	0.84	−1.87 – 2.22
Occupational status
Low occupational autonomy (reference)	0.58	0.49	0 – 1
High occupational autonomy	0.19	0.39	0 – 1
Unemployed	0.24	0.43	0 – 1