‘Resilience, Sense of Coherence, Purpose in Life and Self-Transcendence in Relation to Perceived Physical and Mental Health among the Oldest Old’

Table I. Mean scores (±SD) for the RS, SOC, PIL, STS and SF-36 PCS and SF-36 MCS among total sample, women and men.

(w= 125) Women (w = 86)

Men (n = 39) p-value

RS 117 148± 16.0 148 ± 16.9 150± 13.7 0.45 SOC 116 73 ±10.3 72 ±10.7 74± 9.2 0.22 PIL 115 106 ±15.7 103 ±16.3 110 ± 13.3 0.02 STS 122 47 ± 5.1 47 ± 5.3 47 ± 4 .8 0.97 SF-36 PCS 110 37 ±10.9 36 ± 11.1 40 ±10.2 0.07 SF-36 MCS 110 54 ±8.4 54 ±8.7 53 ± 7 .8 0.37

Table II. Correlation coefficients for RS, SOC, PIL and STS scores and the SF-36 PCS and SF-36 MCS scores for the total sample, women and men.