Later Life as a Daring Experience: Factors Associated with Older Adults’ Risk Perception

Figures & data

Table 1. Means, standard deviations, and correlations between main study variables.

	Variables	M	SD	Terror Risk Perception	Later-Life Risk Perception
1.	Terror risk perception	29.63	22.71	1	.61**
2.	Later-life risk perception	31.60	23.02	. 61**	1
3.	Age	58.80	6.03	.00	.11*
4.	Gender ͣ	.57	.49	.00	.00
5.	Religiosity^b	.36	.48	.00	−.11*
6.	Self-rated health	3.20	1.08	−.15**	−.47**
7.	Place of residence^c	.47	.49	.27**	.10
8.	Depressive symptoms	16.64	4.37	.30**	.32**
9.	Life satisfaction	4.86	1.30	−.12**	−.22**
10.	Social support from family	5.76	1.26	−.03	−.09
11.	Social support from friends	5.37	1.31	−.01	−.10
12.	Social support from significant others	6.01	1.02	−.04	−.16**
13.	Personal spirituality	3.76	.77	−.05	−.15**
14.	Communal spirituality	3.80	.69	.01	−.06
15.	Environmental spirituality	3.45	.85	.06	−.09
16.	Transcendental spirituality	2.42	1.30	.02	−.08
17.	Internet use for interpersonal communication	4.01	1.02	−.04	−.01
18.	Internet use for information	3.97	.88	−.00	−.03
19.	Internet use for task performance	3.11	1.25	−.15**	−.05
20.	Internet use for leisure	2.80	1.25	.04	−.02

N = 306, Correlation values present Pearson coefficients (gender and area of risk present point-biserial coefficients). Gender was coded 0 = man, 1 = woman, ^bReligiosity orientation was coded 0=secular,1=religious, ^cPlace of residence was coded 0=low risk zone, 1=high risk zone.

* p < .05. ** p < .01.

Table 2. Factors associated with terror and later-life risk perceptions: a linear regression analysis.

Variables	Terror Risk Perception	Later-Life Risk Perception
Step 1 (∆R^2)	.098***	.240***
Age	-	.057
Religiosity^b	-	−.114*
Self-rated health	−.153**	−.466***
Place of residence^c	.275***	-
Step 2 (∆R^2)	.054***	.033***
Depressive symptoms	.253***	.199***
Step 3 (∆R^2)	.001	.000
Life satisfaction	−.028	.017
Step 4 (∆R^2)	.009	.000
Social support from significant others	-	−.011
Personal spirituality	-	.034
Internet use for task performance	−.100	-
R^2	.152	.273
F	11.601***	16.115***
df	(5,300)	(7,298)