Table 4.
Time 2 Self-acceptancea 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 | .13*** (.03) | .13*** (.03) | .13*** (.03) | .13*** (.03) | .13*** (.03) | .13*** |
Self-acceptance, T1 | .44*** (.03) | .44*** (.03) | .44*** (.03) | .44*** (.03) | .44*** (.03) | .44*** (.03) |
Functional limitations | −.07** (.03) | −.09** (.03) | −.08** (.03) | −.08** (.03) | −.09** (.03) | −.08** (.03) |
Felt obligated to close others | −.03 (.01) | −.04 (.03) | −.04 (.03) | −.04 (.03) | −.03 (.03) | −.04 (.03) |
Felt obligated to society | .01 (.03) | −.05 (.04) | .00 (.03) | .01 (.03) | .00 (.03) | .01 (.03) |
Age × | ||||||
Functional limitations | .04 (.03) | .04 (.03) | .04 (.03) | |||
Felt obligated to close others | .01 (.03) | .01 (.03) | ||||
Felt obligated to society | −.04 (.03) | −.04 (.03) | ||||
Functional limitations × | ||||||
Felt obligated to close others | .05 (.03) | .06 (.03) | ||||
Felt obligated to society | .07* (.03) | .06 (.03) | ||||
Functional limits × Age × | ||||||
Felt obligated to close others | −.06 (.03) | |||||
Felt obligated to society | −.06 (.03) | |||||
Constant | −1.41*** (.38) | −1.42*** (.38) | −1.40*** (.38) | −1.38*** (.38) | −1.45*** (.38) | −1.36*** (.38) |
R2 | .40 | .40 | .40 | .40 | .40 | .40 |
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.
Scores on self-acceptance were standardized at the sample mean.
*p ≤ .05; **p ≤ .01; ***p ≤ .001 (two-tailed).