Influence of age and schooling in written discourse of healthy adults

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica

Psychology: Research and Review

Table 2 Analysis by logistic regression to evaluate the influence of demographic data in discourse

Speech elements	OR	Standard error	p	CI 95% (OR)
Scene description
Males	2.0	0.4	0.001	1.3; 3.1
Age range, 40–59	1.6	0.4	0.052	1.0; 2.5
Age range, 60–75	1.6	0.5	0.082	0.9; 2.8
Education level, 9–11	0.7	0.2	0.166	0.4; 1.1
Education level, ≥ 12	0.6	0.1	0.018	0.3; 0.9
Scene narration
Males	0.5	0.1	0.002	0.3; 0.8
Age range, 40–59	0.6	0.1	0.033	0.4; 1.0
Age range, 60–75	0.6	0.2	0.059	0.3; 1.0
Education level, 9–11	1.4	0.3	0.203	0.8; 2.2
Education level, ≥ 12	1.8	0.4	0.018	1.1; 2.9
Discourse coherence
Males	2.8	1.6	0.070	0.9; 8.5
Age range, 40–59	0.8	0.4	0.680	0.3; 2.1
Age range, 60–75	0.7	0.4	0.526	0.2; 2.1
Education level, 9–11	2.6	1.2	0.040	1.0; 6.5
Education level, ≥ 12	9.4	7.1	0.003	2.1; 41.4
Discourse cohesion
Males	0.7	0.3	0.466	0.3; 1.7
Age range, 40–59	0.7	0.3	0.466	0.3; 1.7
Age range, 60–75	0.9	0.5	0.905	0.3; 3.0
Education level, 9–11	2.9	1.3	0.021	1.2; 7.1
Education level, ≥ 12	10.6	8.0	0.002	2.4; 46.4