Table 3.
Weighted linear regression analyses for measures of psychological well-being and psychological distress for older African Americans.1
| Life Satisfaction | Happiness | Self-Rated Mental Health | Depressive Symptoms (CES-D) | Serious Psychological Distress (K6) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | S. E. | B | S. E. | B | S. E. | B | S. E. | B | S. E. | |
| Age | .01*** | .00 | .01*** | .00 | −.00 | .00 | −.07* | .03 | −.06** | .02 |
| Gender: Female | .02 | .05 | −.08 | .05 | −.07 | .09 | −.38 | .40 | −.16 | .26 |
| Income | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .01 | .01 | −.11** | .04 | −.06* | .03 |
| Education | −.00 | .01 | −.01 | .01 | .05*** | .01 | −.31*** | .06 | −.20** | .06 |
| Marital Status | ||||||||||
| Separated | −.32** | .12 | −.27* | .13 | −.01 | .16 | .22 | .81 | .60 | .72 |
| Divorced | −.28*** | .08 | −.18** | .07 | .07 | .10 | −.18 | .66 | −.33 | .44 |
| Widowed | −.14* | .06 | −.10 | .06 | −.00 | .11 | .18 | .54 | .16 | .35 |
| Never Married | −.38*** | .13 | −.18 | .10 | −.07 | .16 | .74 | .90 | .90 | .60 |
| Region | ||||||||||
| Northeast | −.13 | .11 | −.22 | .12 | .04 | .10 | .42 | 1.11 | .21 | .75 |
| North Central | −.12 | .10 | −.09 | .08 | −.07 | .13 | .07 | .44 | .10 | .41 |
| West | .13 | .11 | .12 | .08 | .14 | .26 | 1.37* | .53 | .45 | .39 |
| Constant | 2.64*** | .26 | 2.77*** | .27 | 3.01*** | .35 | 14.27*** | 2.45 | 9.45*** | 1.70 |
| N | 827 | 825 | 786 | 774 | 777 | |||||
| F | ||||||||||
| R2 | .07 | .08 | .06 | .95 | .08 | |||||
1
Several predictors are represented by dummy variables: Gender: female = 1, marital status: married = 0 and region: South = 0.
Income is coded in dollars and has been divided by 5,000 in order to increase effect sizes and provide a better understanding of the net impact of income. All of the coefficients are unstandardized.
*
p < .05;
**
p < .01;
***
p < .001