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Table 2 Ageing Perceptions

From: Positive and negative ageing perceptions account for health differences between older immigrant and native populations in the Netherlands

 

Native Dutch (n = 1150)

Turkish origin (n = 680)

Moroccan origin (n = 292)

Group differences

Positive ageing perceptions

 Consequence positive

3.38 (0.76)a

3.57 (0.98)ac

3.39 (0.77)c

F(2, 2119) = 11.3, p < .001

 Control positive

3.72 (0.69)ab

3.44 (0.98)ac

3.22 (0.87)bc

F(2, 2119) = 52.8, p < .001

 Control negative

2.42 (0.77)ab

2.25 (0.86)a

2.28 (0.74)b

F(2, 2119) = 9.6, p < .001

Negative ageing perceptions

 Consequence negative

3.39 (0.83)ab

3.84 (0.94)a

3.74 (0.88)b

F(2, 2119) = 58.3, p < .001

 Timeline chronical

3.34 (0.92)ab

3.77 (0.92)a

3.71 (0.80)b

F(2, 2119) = 53.5, p < .001

 Timeline cyclical

2.84 (0.88)ab

3.52 (0.75)ac

3.14 (0.80)bc

F(2, 2119) = 140.6, p < .001

 Emotional representations

2.45 (0.85)ab

2.87 (1.03)ac

2.30 (0.90)bc

F(2, 2119) = 55.6, p < .001

  1. Data are presented as mean (standard deviation)
  2. abc Posthoc pairwise comparisons to determine which means differ significantly (p < 0.05)
  3. Multiple imputation using chained equations was used to deal with missing values