Table 4.
Sadness, Age, Sadness × Age, and Covariates as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being
| Satisfaction with life | Ratio of positive to negative affect | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 1 | Step 2 | |||||
| B | SE(B) | B | SE(B) | B | SE(B) | B | SE(B) | |
| Sadnessa | .26 | .17 | .34* | .17 | .07 | .10 | .14 | .10 |
| Age (YA vs. OA) | .02 | .26 | .14 | .27 | −.14 | .15 | −.09 | .15 |
| Age (MA vs. OA) | −.74** | .27 | −.63* | .26 | −.05 | .15 | .00 | .15 |
| Sadnessa × age (YA vs. OA) | −.57* | .27 | −.61* | .27 | −.30† | .15 | −.31* | .15 |
| Sadnessa × age (MA vs. OA) | −.45† | .26 | −.42 | .26 | −.10 | .15 | −.07 | .15 |
| Physiological activationa | - | - | .16 | .24 | - | - | −.07 | .14 |
| Pre-film sadness | - | - | −.22* | .11 | - | - | −.20** | .06 |
| Female gender | - | - | .47* | .21 | - | - | .24* | .12 |
| ΔR2 | .08** | .04* | .02 | .07** | ||||
Note. YA = Young adults. MA = Middle-aged adults. OA = Older adults (reference group).
a
Self-reported sadness and physiological activation in response to the emotionally-neutral, thematically-ambiguous film.
†
p < .10.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.