Table 1.

Background, Health, Personality, and Network Predictors of Quality of Life Among Europeans Aged 50+: OLS Regressions.

	Quality of Life
	Model 1A	Model 1B	Model 1C	Model 1D
Backgrounds a	β	β	β	β
Age 65-74 b	−0.009	−0.013**	−0.010*	−0.010*
Age 75+ b	−0.070***	−0.079***	−0.074***	−0.075***
Gender (F)	0.021***	0.021***	0.011*	0.011*
Living arrangement	0.036***	0.039***	0.021***	0.021***
Education	0.065***	0.055***	0.053***	0.053***
Financial capacity	0.226***	0.208***	0.203***	0.203***
Mobility difficulty	−0.356***	−0.328***	−0.329***	−0.330***
Big-five personality traits
Openness		0.050***	0.045***	0.045***
Conscientiousness		0.088***	0.081***	0.081***
Extraversion		0.085***	0.078***	0.078***
Agreeableness		0.037***	0.031***	0.031***
Neuroticism		−0.139***	−0.136***	−0.136***
Social network
Network size			0.066***	0.068***
Contact frequency			0.009	0.010
Emotional closeness			0.098***	0.096***
Interactions
Conscientiousness*Size				−0.008
Conscientiousness*Contact mean				0.004
Conscientiousness*Close mean				−0.002
Extraversion*Size				−0.015**
Extraversion*Contact mean				−0.004
Extraversion*Close mean				−0.001
Neuroticism*Size				0.009*
Neuroticism*Contact mean				0.009
Neuroticism*Close mean				0.004
Observations	35,145	35,145	35,145	35,145
R-squared	0.375	0.425	0.435	0.436

Notes: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

^aAll models controlled for country.

^bReference category = Age 50–64.