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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2021 Aug 25;185:107508. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107508

Table 1. Questionnaire data.

Group means and standard deviations of questionnaire data.

Young Adults Older Adults Age Differences
n M (SD) n M (SD) (p-value)
BDI 15 7.33 (8.55) 17 4.76 (5.25) 0.42
ESS 17 8.18 (3.09) 18 7.72 (3.08) 0.36
MEQ 17 47.53 (11.21) 13 59.08 (10.30) 0.02
PSQI 17 4.70 (2.47) 16 4.56 (1.41) 0.95
SSS-1 17 2.29 (0.69) 18 2.11 (0.76) 0.46
SSS-2 17 2.35 (1.17) 18 1.94 (0.80) 0.38
SSS-3 17 2.41 (0.87) 16 2.00 (0.73) 0.19
SSS-4 16 2.94 (1.24) 16 2.13 (0.89) 0.08
PTA-1 16 4.06 (3.32) 15 3.67 (2.47) 0.71
PTA-2 14 4.29 (3.32) 15 2.47 (2.75) 0.12

BDI – Beck Depression Inventory; ESS – Epworth Sleepiness Scale; MEQ – Morning-Eveningness Questionnaire; PSQI – Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; SSS – Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS-1: nap encoding; SSS-2: nap delayed test; SSS-3: wake encoding; SSS-4: wake delayed test); PTA – Post Task Awareness (PTA-1: nap condition; PTA-2: wake condition); n – number of participants with available data; M – mean; SD – standard deviation.