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. 2023 Feb 6;63(7):1129–1139. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnad007

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.