From: Social relations and health in older people in Spain using SHARE survey data
Physical and emotional health | Functional ability | Cognitive and sensory ability | |||||||
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Meanb | SDc | p-value | Meanb | SDc | p-value | Meanb | SDc | p-value | |
Gender | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.419 | ||||||
Women | 67.36 | 18.47 | 90.39 | 19.68 | 50.19 | 17.75 | |||
Men | 72.89 | 15.11 | 93.74 | 14.92 | 51.04 | 15.83 | |||
Marital Status | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.126 | ||||||
Without a partner | 66.23 | 18.06 | 87.65 | 23.27 | 49.32 | 18.34 | |||
With a partner | 71.59 | 16.54 | 93.94 | 13.96 | 51.18 | 16.14 | |||
Job situation | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
Pensioner | 66.25 | 15.96 | 90.78 | 18.76 | 47.38 | 15.85 | |||
Employed | 81.65 | 11.62 | 97.81 | 1.56 | 58.61 | 15.60 | |||
Housewife | 65.71 | 17.81 | 91.95 | 16.37 | 48.34 | 15.72 | |||
Others | 67.04 | 18.00 | 87.66 | 23.46 | 49.96 | 17.83 | |||
Age | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
50 to 64 years | 76.96 | 14.56 | 96.92 | 5.98 | 56.68 | 15.55 | |||
65 to 79 years | 66.85 | 16.31 | 96.92 | 14.48 | 48.85 | 15.55 | |||
80 years + | 57.01 | 16.26 | 75.96 | 30.55 | 37.74 | 16.59 | |||
Satisfaction with social network | < 0.001 | 0.012 | 0.07 | ||||||
Low-moderate degree | 48.20 | 20.33 | 88.12 | 9.91 | 31.04 | 9.99 | |||
High degree | 71.08 | 16.66 | 94.54 | 11.85 | 51.75 | 16.11 | |||
Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale. | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
Does not feel loneliness | 74.87 | 15.38 | 96.03 | 8.98 | 54.19 | 15.69 | |||
Feels some degree of loneliness | 63.17 | 16.51 | 91.47 | 15.68 | 46.97 | 16.27 | |||
Number of friends in social network | 0.088 | < 0.001 | 0.277 | ||||||
No friends | 70.37 | 16.97 | 93.91 | 13.19 | 51.32 | 16.53 | |||
1 to 7 friends | 72.31 | 15.71 | 95.56 | 9.63 | 52.70 | 14.91 | |||
Number of family members in social network | 0.863 | 0.644 | 0.242 | ||||||
No family members | 71.07 | 14.91 | 94.69 | 11.91 | 49.36 | 14.66 | |||
1 to 5 or more | 70.78 | 16.81 | 94.25 | 12.54 | 51.75 | 16.26 |