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. 2021 Oct 16;77(8):1490–1500. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab192

Table 2.

Linear Regression Models Predicting Montreal Cognitive Assessment (z-standardized)

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5
β (SE) β (SE) β (SE) β (SE) β (SE)
Sociodemographics
 Age −0.02 (0.01) −0.02 (0.01) −0.02* (0.01) −0.02 (0.01) −0.02* (0.01)
 Woman 0.39* (0.15) 0.33* (0.14) 0.36** (0.14) 0.31* (0.14) 0.30* (0.15)
 Education (years) 0.08*** (0.02) 0.07** (0.02) 0.08*** (0.02) 0.07*** (0.02) 0.08*** (0.02)
 White 0.46** (0.15) 0.43** (0.14) 0.55*** (0.13) 0.42** (0.14) 0.42** (0.14)
Clinical measures
 GDS (logged) −0.50*** (0.09) −0.45*** (0.08) −0.29*** (0.08) −0.46*** (0.08) −0.51*** (0.08)
 Intracranial volume (z) 0.12** (0.07) 0.08 (0.08) 0.06 (0.07) 0.07 (0.08) 0.05 (0.08)
 Amygdalar atrophy (z) −0.21* (0.08) −0.19** (0.07) −0.19** (0.07) −0.45*** (0.13) −0.43*** (0.11)
Network attributes
 Size −0.03 (0.03) −0.023 (0.03)
 Prop. frequent contact −0.61* (0.25) −0.59** (0.22) −0.48 (0.25) −0.55* (0.25)
 Diversity 0.12* (0.05) 0.13* (0.05)
 Effective size 0.01 (0.04) 0.03 (0.04)
Interactions
 Amygdala × Diversity 0.08* (0.04)
 Amygdala × Effective size 0.14* (0.05)
Intercept 0.23 (0.81) −0.38 (0.84) 0.51 (0.75) −0.23 (0.82) 0.79 (0.80)
Adjusted R 2 0.43 0.48 0.44 0.49 0.49
N 154 154 154 154 154

Notes: GDS = 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale. Models 3 and 5 do not control for network size because network size is a key component used to calculate effective size.

*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001.