Table 4.
Multilevel Linear Models Predicting Positive Mood From Contacts with Friends and Age
| Variable | Full sample (N = 169) | White adults (n = 89) | Black adults (n = 80) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | SE | B | SE | B | SE | ||||
| Intercept | 2.91 | *** | 0.15 | 2.60 | *** | 0.18 | 3.18 | *** | 0.20 |
| Age | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | |||
| Within-person effects | |||||||||
| Friend encounters | 0.07 | * | 0.03 | 0.08 | * | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.05 | |
| Friend encounters × age | −0.00 | 0.00 | −0.00 | 0.00 | −0.01 | * | 0.00 | ||
| Romantic partner encounters | 0.07 | * | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.05 | ||
| Romantic partner encounters × age | −0.00 | 0.00 | −0.00 | 0.00 | −0.01 | 0.00 | |||
| Children encounters | 0.02 | 0.03 | −0.00 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | |||
| Children encounters × age | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |||
| Other family | 0.07 | * | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.10 | ** | 0.04 | |
| Other family encounters × age | −0.00 | 0.00 | −0.00 | 0.00 | −0.00 | 0.00 | |||
| Other encounters | 0.09 | *** | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.14 | *** | 0.04 | |
| Other encounters × age | −0.00 | 0.00 | −0.00 | 0.00 | −0.00 | 0.00 | |||
| Between-person effects | |||||||||
| Friend encounters | 0.54 | * | 0.24 | 0.55 | 0.36 | 0.71 | * | 0.32 | |
| Friend encounters × age | −0.01 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | −0.01 | 0.03 | |||
| Romantic partner encounters | −0.14 | 0.18 | 0.32 | 0.21 | −0.84 | ** | 0.28 | ||
| Romantic partner encounters × age | −0.02 | 0.01 | −0.02 | 0.01 | −0.01 | 0.02 | |||
| Children encounters | −0.01 | 0.18 | 0.01 | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.28 | |||
| Children encounters × age | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.02 | −0.03 | 0.03 | |||
| Other family | 0.15 | 0.18 | 0.39 | 0.23 | −0.13 | 0.28 | |||
| Other family encounters × age | −0.00 | 0.01 | −0.02 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.02 | |||
| Other encounters | −0.35 | 0.19 | −0.19 | 0.23 | −0.53 | 0.30 | |||
| Other encounters × age | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | |||
| Black | 0.09 | 0.10 | — | — | — | — | |||
| Covariates (not shown in the table) | — | — | — | ||||||
| Random effects | |||||||||
| Intercept variance (Level 2: Participant) | 0.32 | *** | 0.04 | 0.26 | *** | 0.04 | 0.29 | *** | 0.05 |
| Residual variance | 0.22 | *** | 0.01 | 0.21 | *** | 0.01 | 0.22 | *** | 0.01 |
Notes: Continuous covariates were grand-mean centered. Covariates including gender, education, marital status, self-rated health, social convoy size, work status, and time of the day were not shown in the table.*p <.05. **p <.01. ***p <.001.