Table 2.

Background, health, personality, and network predictors of life-satisfaction among Europeans aged 50+: OLS regressions.

	Life-Satisfaction
	Model 2A	Model 2B	Model 2C	Model 2D
Backgrounds a	β	β	β	β
Age 65-74 b	0.019**	0.016**	0.021***	0.021***
Age 75+ b	0.039***	0.032***	0.039***	0.038***
Gender (F)	0.032***	0.035***	0.025***	0.025***
Living arrangement	0.093***	0.098***	0.074***	0.074***
Education	0.028***	0.019***	0.020***	0.020***
Financial capacity	0.181***	0.167***	0.162***	0.162***
Mobility difficulty	−0.236***	−0.214***	−0.216***	−0.216***
Big-five personality traits
Openness		0.040***	0.036***	0.036***
Conscientiousness		0.048***	0.040***	0.040***
Extraversion		0.072***	0.064***	0.065***
Agreeableness		0.033***	0.028***	0.028***
Neuroticism		−0.123***	−0.118***	−0.118***
Social network
Network size			0.063***	0.063***
Contact frequency			0.041***	0.042***
Emotional closeness			0.097***	0.096***
Interactions
Conscientiousness*Size				−0.005
Conscientiousness*Contact mean				0.003
Conscientiousness*Close mean				0.000
Extraversion*Size				−0.014**
Extraversion*Contact mean				0.003
Extraversion*Close mean				−0.002
Neuroticism*Size				0.017**
Neuroticism*Contact mean				0.012*
Neuroticism*Close mean				0.005
Observations	35,145	35,145	35,145	35,145
R-squared	0.186	0.218	0.229	0.230

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

^aAll models controlled for country.

^bReference category = Age 50–64.