Gender Gaps in Strategies for Maintaining the Social Participation and Interaction of Older Adults with People in a Local Community

Table 2

Correlation coefficient of LSNS-6 and each variable.

	Male		Female
	Correlation coefficient with LSNS-6		Correlation coefficient with LSNS-6
Age	0.128	0.322	0.071^a	0.572
Number of family members who live with the subjects	0.164	0.202	0.281	0.023
Economic conditions	0.130	0.314	0.092	0.468
Outing frequency	0.056	0.668	−0.068	0.591
SARDS	0.429	0.001	0.501^a	≤0.001
SOC-13	0.282^a	0.027	0.337	0.006
SOPI	0.348	0.006	0.364	0.003

SARDS: social activities related to daily life satisfaction for the elderly; SOC-13: sense of coherence-13; LSNS-6: Japanese version Lubben Social Network Scale short version; SOPI: self-completed occupational performance index; a: Person’s correlation coefficient and others are Spearman’s correlation coefficient.