Table 4.

Predictors of positive experienced well being among older married adults: unstandardized coefficients from ordinary least squares regression models.

	Yesterday			Random activity yesterday
	Time spent feeling pleasant (mins)			How happy (0–6)			How calm (0–6)
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Respondent characteristics
Disability (Yes/no)	−38.10^*	−41.88^*	−40.73^*	0.00	−0.08	−0.07	−0.06	−0.08	−0.09
Severity of impairments	−6.79^**	−6.47^**	−6.23^**	−0.04^**	−0.03^**	−0.03^**	−0.03^**	−0.02^*	−0.01^*
Female		−10.82	−7.54		0.01	−0.05		−0.09	−0.13
Age 60–69		28.14	33.33		0.21	0.15		0.30^**	0.25^*
Age 70–79		33.68	45.89		0.29^*	0.21		0.26	0.19
Age 80+		7.67	18.35		0.09	−0.01		−0.01	−0.10
Duration of limiting condition		1.91	2.76		0.00	0.00		−0.02	−0.02^*
Spouse characteristics
Age 60–69		34.61	31.90		0.23	0.20		−0.03	−0.06
Age 70–79		27.30	30.58		0.40^*	0.39^*		0.15	0.12
Age 80+		−12.51	−12.79		0.29	0.29		0.18	0.16
Disability (Yes/no)		2.64	0.00		−0.09	−0.08		−0.05	−0.04
Couple characteristics
Income 1st quartile (lowest)		27.63	42.47		0.59^**	0.54^**		0.32^**	0.31^**
Income 2nd quartile		−11.58	−4.17		0.41^**	0.37^**		0.26^**	0.25^*
Income 3rd quartile		38.08	40.51		0.44^**	0.40^**		0.26^**	0.26^**
Wealth 1st quartile (lowest)		7.95	7.42		−0.07	−0.02		−0.11	−0.12
Wealth 2nd quartile		3.87	−0.52		−0.17	−0.13		−0.10	−0.10
Wealth 3rd quartile		5.40	6.33		−0.12	−0.08		−0.20^*	−0.20^*
Marital quality 1st quartile (lowest)		−63.59^*	−61.12^*		−0.60^**	−0.57^**		−0.34^**	−0.32^**
Marital quality 2nd quartile		−43.46^*	−40.24		−0.49^**	−0.48^**		−0.31^**	−0.31^**
Marital quality 3rd quartile		25.98	24.29		−0.14	−0.12		−0.17^*	−0.16^*
Activities
Shopping			−4.08			−0.11			−0.28^*
Working			44.65^*			−0.33^*			−0.26
Volunteering			54.40			0.51^**			0.27
Caring			6.53			−0.06			−0.03
Socializing			15.32			0.29^**			0.05
Physical activity			0.77			0.06			−0.29^*
Going out for pleasure			37.90^*			0.49^**			0.09
Constant	829.39^**	781.66^**	734.50^**	5.21^**	4.81^**	4.90^**	5.53^**	5.41^**	5.57^**
−2^* log likelihood	20379.0	20321.6	20305.2	13864.0	13635.0	13576.9	13400.7	13266.7	13232.8
Likelihood ratio test^a (df)		57.4 (18)^**	16.36(7)^*		229.0(18)^**	58.1(7)^**		134.0(18)^**	33.91(7)^**
n		1498			4370			4370

p < .05;

^**

p < .01.

The likelihood ratio test is a chi-square test for nested models.