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Table 2 Health and wellbeing of the participants by grandparent status

From: To be or not to be: relationship between grandparent status and health and wellbeing

 

Overall

(N = 1208)

Current

(n = 507)

To-be

(n = 275)

Not-to-be

(n = 426)

F-value

Resilience

7.15 ± 1.62

7.04 ± 1.68

7.44 ± 1.51

7.12 ± 1.60

19.5**

Happiness

20.23 ± 4.58

21.00 ± 4.57

20.44 ± 4.28

19.18 ± 4.61

5.7***

Self-rated physical health

3.41 ± 0.87

3.39 ± 0.90

3.56 ± 0.83

3.33 ± 0.86

6.106**

Self-rated mental health

3.60 ± 0.86

3.55 ± 0.89

3.74 ± 0.79

3.58 ± 0.86

4.433*

  1. Note: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001