Table 3.

Time 2 Personal Growth^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, T1	.03 (.03)	.03 (.03)	.03 (.03)	.03 (.03)	.03 (.03)	.03 (.03)
Personal growth, T1	.30*** (.03)	.30*** (.03)	.31*** (.03)	.31*** (.03)	.31*** (.03)	.31*** (.03)
Functional limitations	−.11*** (.03)	−.09*** (.03)	−.12*** (.03)	−.12*** (.03)	−.12*** (.03)	−.12** (.03)
Felt obligated to close others	−.00 (.04)	−.00 (.04)	−.01 (.04)	−.01 (.04)	−.01 (.04)	−.01 (.04)
Felt obligated to society	.06 (.04)	.06 (.04)	.05 (.04)	.06 (.04)	.05 (.04)	.06 (.04)
Age ×
Functional limitations		−.00 (.03)			−.01 (.03)	−.03 (.03)
Felt obligated to close others			.04 (.03)		.04 (.03)
Felt obligated to society				.01 (.03)		−.03 (.03)
Functional limitations ×
Felt obligated to close others			.06* (.03)		.05 (.03)
Felt obligated to society				.07** (.03)		.08** (.02)
Functional limits × Age ×
Felt obligated to close others					.02 (.03)
Felt obligated to society						.02 (.03)
Constant	−2.28*** (.39)	−2.28*** (.39)	−2.28*** (.39)	−2.25*** (.39)	−2.26*** (.39)	−2.24*** (.30)
R2	.34	.34	.34	.34	.34	.34
Valid n	778	778	778	778	778	778

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 personal growth were standardized at the sample mean.

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