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Table 4.

Mean differences (I-J) on the CASP-12 scores between groups of older persons that have none, small (one or two members), or large (three or more members) social networks, divided in solitude satisfaction and network satisfaction categories

	“Network-less” (J)			Small network (J)			Large network (J)
“Network-less” (I)	Low^a	Medium^a	High^a	Low^b	Medium^b	High^b	Low^b	Medium^b	High^b
Low^a	-	-3.446*	-5.800*	− 0.195	-3.040*	-4.671*	-1.386*	-4.602*	-5.889*
Medium^a		-	-2.355*	3.251*	0.406	-1.225*	2.059*	-1.156*	-2.444*
High^a			-	5.606*	2.760*	1.130*	4.414*	1.198*	− 0.089
Small network (I)
Low^b				-	-2.845*	-4.476*	-1.192*	-4.407*	-5.695*
Medium^b					-	-1.631*	1.654*	-1.562*	-2.849*
High^b						-	3.284*	0.069	-1.219*
Large network (I)
Low^b							-	-3.215*	-4.503*
Medium^b								-	-1.288*
High^b									-
Note. Negative values indicate lower scores, and positive values indicate higher scores in the CASP-12 scale for the (I) column category. ^a Refers to solitude satisfaction ^b Refers to network satisfaction ^* p = .000