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 | |
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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.
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