Table 2.

Time 2 Negative Affect^a Regressed on Age, Functional Limitations, and Felt Obligation to Help Close Others and Society

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5	Model 6
	β	β	β	β	β	β
Age	−.12*** (.04)	−.12*** (.04)	−.12*** (.04)	−.12*** (.03)	−.13*** (.04)	−.13*** (.04)
Negative affect, T1	.39*** (.03)	.39*** (.03)	.39*** (.03)	.39*** (.03)	.39*** (.03)	.39*** (.03)
Functional limitations	.25*** (.03)	.26*** (.03)	.26*** (.03)	.26*** (.03)	.27*** (.03)	.25*** (.03)
Felt obligated to close others	.04 (.04)	.05 (.04)	.05 (.04)	.05 (.04)	.04 (.04)	.05 (.04)
Felt obligated to society	−.05 (.04)	−.05 (.04)	−.05 (.04)	−.05 (.04)	−.04 (.04)	−.05 (.04)
Age ×
Functional limitations		−.04 (.03)			−.05 (.03)	−.05 (.04)
Felt obligated to close others			−.01 (.03)		−.01 (.03)
Felt obligated to society				.02 (.03)		−.04 (.03)
Functional limitations ×
Felt obligated to close others			−.07* (.03)		−.07** (.03)
Felt obligated to society				−.05 (.03)		−.04 (.03)
Functional limits × Age ×
Felt obligated to close others					.07* (.03)
Felt obligated to society						.07* (.04)
Constant	.15 (.40)	.16 (.40)	.16 (.40)	.14 (.40)	.19 (.40)	.10 (.40)
R2	.28	.28	.29	.29	.29	.29
Valid n	771	771	771	771	771	771

Notes: Data are from respondents who were at least 35 years old at T1 and who reported no functional limitations at T1 in the 1995−2005 National Survey of Midlife in the United States. All models included as covariates measures of respondents’ gender, race/ethnicity, household income, education, marital status, work status, parental status, religious participation, formal volunteering, social integration, and parental generosity, affection, and use of rules in respondents’ childhood.

^aScores on negative affect were standardized at the sample mean.

*p ≤ .05; **p ≤ .01; ***p ≤ .001 (two-tailed).