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Table 2 Descriptive results for each Scale of the ABaCo, and ABaCo total score, in each age group

From: A cross-sectional study to assess pragmatic strengths and weaknesses in healthy ageing

Scales

Young Adults

Older Adults

Senior-Older Adults

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Linguistic

.87 (.09)

.80 (0.10)

.80 (.07)

Extralinguistic

.80 (.10)

.64 (0.12)

.65 (.15)

Paralinguistic

.88 (.08)

.77 (0.12)

.74 (.13)

Contextual

.93 (.08)

.85 (0.14)

.82 (.09)

Conversational

.99 (.03)

.99 (0.06)

.97 (.09)

ABaCo total score

.87 (.07)

.76 (0.09)

.76 (.08)

  1. Note. Young Adults (20–40 years old), Older Adults (65–75 years old) and Senior-Older Adults (76–86 years old). SD Standard deviation