Table 4.
Variables (1992) included in the logistic regression with positive/negative health (1994) as the dependent variable.
| Variable | Scale a) |
| Dichotomised | |
| Age | |
| Young (<55) / old (≥ 55) | Q: 25→ 64 |
| Gender (no bivariate relation to positive/negative health) | |
| Male / female | N |
| Living alone | |
| Yes / no | N |
| Living with children | |
| Yes / no | N |
| Immigrationb) | |
| Yes / no | N |
| Diagnosis at retirement: fibromyalgia c) | |
| Yes / no | N |
| Physician visit last six months d) | |
| Yes / no | |
| In-patient care last six months d) | |
| Yes / no | |
| Regular use d) of: | |
| - sleeping medicine | |
| Yes / no | N |
| - analgesics | |
| Yes / no | N |
| Index of neurotic symptoms e) | |
| Low (0–2) / high (3–7) | Q: 0→7 |
| Index of psychosomatic symptoms e) | |
| Low (0–2) / high (3–5) | Q: 0→5 |
| ADL index f) | |
| Low (6–11) / high (12–36) | I: 6→36 |
| Subjective health c) | |
| Positive (1+2) / not positive (3–5) | O: Good (1) → poor (5) |
| Present quality of life g) | |
| Positive (1+2) / not positive (3–5) | O: Very good (1) → very bad (5) |
| Life-span quality of life g) | |
| Positive (1+2) / not positive (3–5) | O: Very good (1) → very bad (5) |
| Change in quality of life since retirement g) | |
| Better (1+2) / not better (3–5) | O: Much better (1) → much worse(5) |
| Expected future quality of life g) | |
| Not worse (1–3) / worse (4–5) | O: Much better (1) → much worse(5) |
| Satisfaction with: f) | |
| - economy | O: Very satisfied (1) → very dissatisfied (5) |
| Content (1+2) / not content (3–5) | |
| - dwelling | |
| Content (1) / not content (2–5) | |
| - leisure time | |
| Content (1+2) / not content (3–5) | |
| Lonesome f) | |
| Lonesome (1+2) / not lonesome (3+4) | O: Yes, often (1) → no, never (4) |
| Difficulties to pass time f) | |
| Difficulties (1+2) / no difficulties (3+4) | O: Yes, often (1) → no, never (4) |
| Positive self-image e) | |
| High positive self-image (5–10) / low positive self-image (11–20) | I: Index based on the sum of five items: 5 → 20 |
| Economic development since retirement | |
| Positive (1+2) / not positive (3–5) | O: Much better today (1) → much worse today (5) |
a) N = Nominal scale; O = Ordinal scale; I = Interval scale; Q = Quote scale b) for detailed definition see [14]c) for definition see Methods d) for detailed definition see [12]e) for detailed definition see [16]f) low ADL index means high ADL capacity: for detailed definition see [15]g) for detailed definition see [17]