Table 3 Descriptive Statistics for Demographics, Health Status, Health Behaviours, and Personality Characteristics.

From: Dispositional Gratitude Moderates the Association between Socioeconomic Status and Interleukin-6

 

n

M

SD

Range

Demographic

   Age (years)

1,054

58.04

11.62

35–86

   Gender (% of male)

1,054

45.26%

  

   Marital status (% of married)

1,054

69.83

  

   Citizenship (US citizen)

1,054

99.6%

  

   Educationa

1,051

7.74

2.45

1–12

   Income

1,013

45,010

40,462

0–200,000

   Income group (quartile)

1,013

2.50

1.12

1–4

Health Status and Behaviours

   Number of chronic disease

1,054

4.02

2.94

0–20

   Non-smoker (%)

1,054

55.3%

  

   Former smoker (%)

1,054

33.3%

  

   Current smoker (%)

1,054

11.4%

  

   Alcohol consumption

1,054

2.53

1.58

1–6

Personalityb

   Openness to experience

1,045

2.96

0.52

1–4

   Conscientious

1,050

3.40

0.45

1–4

   Extraversion

1,050

3.13

0.57

1–4

   Agreeableness

1,050

3.44

0.50

1–4

   Neuroticism

1,050

2.03

0.63

1–4

  1. Note. SDs are shown in parentheses.
  2. aEducation attainment was rated on a scale of 1 (No school) to 12 (Ph.D, ED. D, MD, LLB, LLD, JD, or other professional degree).
  3. bEach personality score was calculated by averaging the respective personality items that were rated on a four-point Likert scale (1 = not at all, 4 = a lot; Rossi64), with higher scores reflecting a higher amount of that particular personality dimension (e.g., greater openness to experience).
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