The Effect of Self-Transcendence on Depression in Cognitively Intact Nursing Home Patients

Table 1

Means (M), standard deviations (SD), Cronbach’s alpha, and correlation coefficients for the study variables.

Construct	M	SD	Cronbach’s alpha	ST-1	ST-2	HADS-D
ST-1 (7 items)	2.54	0.58	.76	—
ST-2 (7 items)	3.04	0.42	.65	0.29*	—
HADS-D (6 items)	2.32	0.39	.68	0.43*	0.50*	—
Self-transcendence (15 items)	2.85	0.34	.72

Note: ST-1: interpersonal self-transcendence. ST-2: intrapersonal self-transcendence. HADS-D: depression. *Significant at the 0.05 level.