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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2011 Nov 27;74(4):588–596. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.10.018

Table 5.

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

Yesterday
Random activity yesterday
Time spent feeling unpleasant (mins)
How sad (0–6)
How much pain (0–6)
How tired (0–6)
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Respondent characteristics
 Disability (Yes/no) 3.41 8.72 8.37 0.00 −0.02 −0.02 0.40** 0.45** 0.45** 0.36** 0.27* 0.25*
 Severity of impairments 1.87* 2.11* 2.06* 0.03** 0.02** 0.02** 0.12** 0.11** 0.11** 0.08** 0.06** 0.06**
 Female −1.93 −3.80 0.11** 0.10* 0.24** 0.22** −0.03 0.03
 Age 60–69 −5.03 −7.57 −0.24** −0.24* −0.12 −0.14 −0.52* −0.49*
 Age 70–79 −10.21 −11.91 −0.12 −0.12 −0.04 −0.07 −0.34 −0.33
 Age 80+ −3.40 −5.07 0.07 0.07 −0.23 −0.28 −0.40 −0.38
 Duration of limiting condition −1.29 −1.42 0.02* 0.02* 0.03* 0.03* 0.05** 0.05**
Spouse characteristics
 Age 60–69 −11.58 −12.20 −0.01 −0.01 −0.15 −0.15 −0.33 −0.31
 Age 70–79 −11.52 −12.44 0.03 0.05 −0.24 −0.19 −0.43 −0.44
 Age 80+ −17.23 −18.46 −0.22 −0.20 −0.40* −0.35* −0.66* −0.68*
 Disability (Yes/no) −4.25 −4.87 0.00 0.01 −0.03 −0.01 0.08 0.05
Couple characteristics
 Income 1st quartile (lowest) −12.67* −13.22* −0.25** −0.27** −0.14 −0.19 −0.06 0.01
 Income 2nd quartile −4.07 −5.31 −0.24** −0.25** −0.02 −0.06 0.08 0.14
 Income 3rd quartile −12.32* −12.16* −0.10 −0.12 0.08 0.04 0.02 0.09
 Wealth 1st quartile (lowest) 7.25 5.85 0.08 0.09 0.14 0.21 0.22 0.16
 Wealth 2nd quartile −2.81 −3.40 0.05 0.06 −0.04 0.01 −0.02 −0.08
 Wealth 3rd quartile 2.31 1.49 0.04 0.05 0.04 0.07 0.02 −0.04
 Marital quality 1st quartile (lowest) 7.39 7.38 0.29** 0.28** −0.22* −0.21* 0.20 0.15
 Marital quality 2nd quartile 11.38 11.07 0.22** 0.22** −0.02 0.00 0.33* 0.29*
 Marital quality 3rd quartile 1.48 1.36 0.06 0.06 −0.08 −0.06 0.16 0.12
Activities
 Shopping 0.87 0.14 0.19 −0.05
 Working −4.46 −0.06 −0.05 0.13
 Volunteering 2.55 −0.34** 0.40 0.64
 Caring 8.03 −0.03 −0.53** −0.33
 Socializing 5.87 0.08 0.24 −0.49**
 Physical activity −4.15 −0.04 0.55** 0.01
 Going out for pleasure −5.07 −0.17** −0.11 0.32
Constant 17.26** 37.02* 41.62* 0.20** 0.32* 0.30** 0.25** 0.44* 0.40* 1.04** 1.60** 1.62**
 −2* log likelihood 17592.5 17555.8 17547.8 13895.0 13762.6 13746.8 15580.0 15450.2 15429.1 17598.9 17476.2 17460.3
 Likelihood ratio testa (df) 36.7 (18)** 8.0 (7) 132.4 (18)** 15.7 (7)* 129.7 (18)** 21.1 (7)** 122.7 (18)** 15.9 (7)*
n 1498 4370 4370 4370
*

p < .05;

**

p < .01.

a

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