Age Differences and Changes in Resources Essential to Aging Well: A Comparison of Sexagenarians, Octogenarians, and Centenarians

Table 4

Mean differences for OMFAQ resources by age group at time 1.

		M (SD)		F	𝜂^2
Resource Construct
	60s	80s	100s
	(𝑛=91)	(𝑛=93)	(𝑛=133)
Economic resources	7.86a	8.18a	7.63a
	(2.29)	(1.97)	(2.25)	1.74	.001
	(𝑛=91)	(𝑛=93)	(𝑛=133)
IADLs	12.78a	12.32a	7.81b
	(.70)	(1.39)	(2.83)	214.18***	.58
	(𝑛=91)	(𝑛=93)	(𝑛=133)
Physical health	2.02a	1.97a	1.74b
	(.79)	(.71)	(.79)	4.48*	.03
	(𝑛=90)	(𝑛=93)	(𝑛=131)
Mental health	2.16a	2.02a,b	2.02b
	(.75)	(.66)	(.70)	1.23	.01
	(𝑛=91)	(𝑛=93)	(𝑛=130)
Social resources	7.65a	7.94a	6.94b	13.53***	.080
	(1.23)	(.91)	(1.91)

Means in the same row that do not share subscripts differ at 𝑃<.05 in the Scheffé post hoc test.
^∗𝑃<.05; ^∗∗𝑃<.01; ^∗∗∗𝑃<.001.