Table 5.

Correlations between frequency of socio-family contact and satisfaction levels.

		Frequency of contact with		Satisfaction levels with
		i	ii	iii	iv	v	vi	vii	viii
Frequency of contact with offspring living in the same city	(1)	1	0.622**	−0.335**	−0.284**	−0.166**	−0.171**	−0.217**	0.097**
	(2)	–	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.004
	(3)	924	838	924	919	894	660	758	900
Frequency of contact with grandchildren	(1)	0.622**	1	−0.259**	−0.229**	−0.204**	−0.202**	−0.166**	0.117**
	(2)	0.000	–	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.001
	(3)	838	881	881	875	855	619	718	857

(i) Offspring living in the same city; (ii) Grandchildren; (iii) Family; (iv) Friends; (v) Neighbors; (vi) Partners; (vii) Professionals; (viii) economic status. (1) Pearson correlation. (2) Sig. (Bilateral). (3) Bold represent the strongest relationships between variables.

^**marks that the correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.