TABLE 3.
Standardized estimates and 95% confidence intervals for the effects of financial status and the moderating effects of childhood SES and baseline age of personality change on the levels and changes in personality trait domains.
| Effects of finance |
Moderating effects of cSES |
Moderating effects of age |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | Finance | cSES | Finance × cSES | Finance | Age | Finance × age | |
| SATSA | |||||||
| N Level | −0.14 [−0.20, −0.08] | −0.14 [−0.20, −0.07] | 0.00 [−0.06, 0.06] | −0.04 [−0.10, 0.02] | −0.25 [−0.33, −0.17] | −0.05 [−0.12, 0.02] | 0.13 [0.05, 0.21] |
| N Change | −0.12 [−0.26, 0.02] | −0.11 [−0.24, 0.03] | −0.14 [−0.28, 0.01] | 0.11 [−0.04, 0.26] | 0.02 [−0.12,0.17] | 0.25 [0.11, 0.39] | −0.16 [−0.36, 0.04] |
| E Level | 0.11 [0.05, 0.17] | 0.10 [0.04, 0.16] | 0.01 [−0.05, 0.07] | 0.03 [−0.03, 0.09] | 0.13 [0.04, 0.22] | −0.02 [−0.09, 0.05] | −0.03 [−0.12,0.05] |
| E Change | 0.13 [−0.02,0.28] | 0.12 [−0.02, 0.27] | −0.04 [−0.18,0.11] | −0.01 [−0.17,0.15] | 0.08 [−0.08, 0.23] | −0.09 [−0.23, 0.04] | 0.01 [−0.24, 0.25] |
| 0 Level | 0.19 [0.13, 0.26] | 0.16 [0.10, 0.23] | 0.19 [0.13, 0.25] | 0.01 [−0.05, 0.07] | 0.09 [0.01, 0.18] | −0.09 [−0.16, −0.02] | 0.12 [0.03, 0.21] |
| 0 Change | 0.09 [−0.09, 0.27] | 0.11 [−0.08,0.29] | −0.09 [−0.22, 0.05] | 0.12 [−0.05,0.28] | 0.12 [−0.06,0.31] | −0.28 [−0.47, −0.10] | −0.40 [−0.71, −0.08] |
| MIDUS | |||||||
| N Level | −0.10 [−0.13, −0.07] | −0.09 [−0.13, −0.06] | −0.06 [−0.09, −0.03] | 0.01 [−0.03, 0.04] | −0.13 [−0.16, −0.09] | −0.16 [−0.20, −0.13] | −0.03 [−0.07, 0.01] |
| N Change | −0.01 [−0.09, 0.07] | −0.01 [−0.10, 0.08] | 0.01 [−0.08,0.10] | −0.03 [−0.13,0.06] | 0.01 [−0.08,0.11] | 0.08 [−0.03,0.19] | 0.08 [−0.03, 0.20] |
| E Level | 0.05 [0.02, 0.08] | 0.04 [0.01, 0.07] | 0.07 [0.04, 0.10] | −0.01 [−0.04, 0.02] | 0.05 [0.01, 0.08] | −0.02 [−0.05, 0.02] | −0.01 [−0.04, 0.02] |
| E Change | 0.11 [0.03, 0.20] | 0.10 [0.02, 0.19] | −0.06 [−0.14, 0.02] | 0.08 [−0.01,0.16] | 0.15 [0.05, 0.24] | 0.07 [−0.02, 0.15] | 0.11 [0.01,0.20] |
| 0 Level | 0.07 [0.04, 0.10] | 0.05 [0.02, 0.08] | 0.16 [0.13, 0.19] | 0.00 [−0.03, 0.03] | 0.09 [0.05, 0.12] | −0.05 [−0.08, −0.02] | 0.06 [0.02, 0.09] |
| 0 Change | 0.06 [0.00, 0.13] | 0.07 [0.001, 0.132] | −0.06 [−0.128, 0.004] | 0.02 [−0.05, 0.08] | 0.08 [0.01, 0.14] | 0.03 [−0.04, 0.10] | 0.06 [−0.02,0.13] |
| C Level | 0.13 [0.10, 0.17] | 0.13 [0.09, 0.17] | 0.04 [−0.001, 0.070] | −0.02 [−0.06, 0.01] | 0.14 [0.11, 0.18] | 0.08 [0.05, 0.12] | 0.02 [−0.02, 0.06] |
| C Change | 0.16 [0.02, 0.30] | 0.17 [0.03, 0.32] | −0.07 [−0.20, 0.06] | 0.01 [−0.11,0.14] | 0.16 [0.02, 0.29] | −0.44 [−0.66, −0.22] | 0.06 [−0.07, 0.20] |
| A Level | −0.09 [−0.12, −0.06] | −0.08 [−0.11, −0.05] | −0.04 [−0.07, −0.01] | 0.00 [−0.03, 0.03] | −0.08 [−0.12, −0.05] | 0.09 [0.05, 0.12] | −0.01 [−0.04, 0.03] |
| A Change | 0.07 [−0.01,0.15] | 0.05 [−0.03,0.13] | −0.01 [−0.09, 0.07] | 0.09 [0.003, 0.170] | 0.08 [−0.002, 0.169] | −0.04 [−0.13, 0.05] | 0.05 [−0.04, 0.15] |
| HRS | |||||||
| N Level | −0.05 [−0.07, −0.04] | −0.10 [−0.13, −0.07] | −0.09 [−0.11, −0.07] | 0.07 [0.03, 0.10] | −0.05 [−0.07, −0.03] | −0.16 [−0.18, −0.14] | −0.04 [−0.06, −0.02] |
| N Change | 0.01 [−0.02, 0.04] | 0.09 [0.02, 0.15] | 0.02 [−0.02, 0.06] | −0.10 [−0.18, −0.03] | 0.02 [−0.02, 0.05] | 0.19 [0.14, 0.24] | 0.01 [−0.03, 0.05] |
| E Level | 0.04 [0.02, 0.06] | 0.07 [0.04, 0.11] | 0.03 [0.01, 0.05] | −0.05 [−0.09, −0.02] | 0.02 [0.002, 0.042] | −0.04 [−0.06, −0.02] | 0.03 [0.01, 0.05] |
| E Change | 0.04 [0.01, 0.07] | 0.04 [−0.02, 0.11] | 0.10 [0.06, 0.14] | −0.02 [−0.08, 0.05] | 0.03 [−0.003, 0.059] | −0.24 [−0.28, −0.19] | 0.04 [−0.001, 0.073] |
| 0 Level | 0.08 [0.06, 0.10] | 0.12 [0.09, 0.15] | 0.23 [0.21, 0.24] | −0.08 [−0.11, −0.05] | 0.04 [0.02, 0.06] | −0.13 [−0.15, −0.11] | 0.07 [0.05, 0.09] |
| 0 Change | 0.03 [−0.01,0.06] | 0.02 [−0.05, 0.09] | 0.07 [0.03, 0.12] | 0.00 [−0.08, 0.08] | 0.02 [−0.02, 0.05] | −0.27 [−0.33, −0.22] | 0.03 [−0.01,0.08] |
| C Level | 0.08 [0.06, 0.10] | 0.15 [0.11, 0.18] | 0.14 [0.12, 0.16] | −0.11 [−0.14, −0.08] | 0.05 [0.03, 0.07] | −0.08 [−0.10, −0.06] | 0.06 [0.04, 0.08] |
| C Change | 0.03 [0.002, 0.064] | −0.01 [−0.07, 0.06] | 0.13 [0.09, 0.17] | 0.03 [−0.04, 0.10] | 0.02 [−0.01, 0.05] | −0.29 [−0.34, −0.24] | 0.04 [0.01, 0.08] |
| A Level | 0.00 [−0.02, 0.02] | 0.04 [0.01, 0.08] | 0.03 [0.01, 0.05] | −0.05 [−0.09, −0.02] | 0.01 [−0.01,0.03] | −0.02 [−0.04, 0.01] | −0.02 [−0.045, −0.003] |
| A Change | 0.05 [0.01, 0.09] | 0.08 [−0.001, 0.152] | 0.20 [0.14, 0.25] | −0.05 [−0.13, 0.04] | 0.03 [−0.01, 0.07] | −0.20 [−0.26, −0.14] | 0.11 [0.06, 0.16] |
Note: Estimates significant after applying Benjamini-Hochberg correction are in bold. For financial status, material resources were assessed in SATSA and household income was assessed in MIDUS and HRS.
Abbreviations: A, agreeableness; C, conscientiousness; cSES, childhood SES; E, extraversion; N, neuroticism; O, openness.