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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 23.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2011 Mar;26(1):21–33. doi: 10.1037/a0021285

Table 3.

Results of Multilevel Growth Curve Analyses Testing the Effect of Age and Control Variables on Three Aspects of Emotional Experience

Positive emotional experience Emotional lability Poignancy
Fixed effects estimates
 Intercept .6414*** .7123** −.3604***
 Age .0030*** −.0040** .0033***
 Age2 −.0001*** .0001 .0001
 Ethnicity .0335 −.0462 .0516
 Sex −.0091 .0817* −.0616
 SES .0243 .0047 .0263
 Physical health −.0062*** .0022 −.0014
 Verbal fluency .0005 .0023 −.0020
Personality
 Neuroticism −.0245 .0212 −.0123
 Extraversion .0242 .0567* −.0353
 Openness .0606*** −.0419 −.0320
 Agreeableness .0167 .0487 .0596
 Conscientiousness −.0078 −.0871 −.0584
 Random effects estimates
 Variance intercept .0290*** .0467*** .0500***
 Residual variance .0276*** .0389*** .0882***
2LL 15.90 213.10 475.20

Note. Unstandardized estimates are presented. All standard errors are ≤ .07. Intercept is centered at age 56 years; Ethnicity, sex and SES are categorical variables coded 0, 1 with Caucasian, male, and white-collar as the default categories; −2LL = −2 Log Likelihood.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.

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