. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 28.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2008 Mar;23(1):154–168. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.23.1.154

Table 3.

Growth Models over Chronological Age and Distance-to-Death for Life Satisfaction.

Effect (se)	Life satisfaction
Effect (se)	Age	Distance-to-death
Fixed effects estimates
Intercept	49.01 (0.46) ^***	45.34 (0.62) ^***
Slope	−0.33 (0.05) ^***	−0.75 (0.10) ^***
Random effects estimates
Variance of intercept	57.63 (6.84) ^***	89.48 (11.19) ^***
Variance of slope	0.05 (0.07)	0.37 (0.24) ^a
Covariance intercept, slope	0.58 (0.37)	3.87 (1.46) ^**
Residual variance	39.44 (2.49) ^***	35.53 (2.64) ^***
AIC	6,880	6,854
− 2LL	6,868	6,842

Note. N = 414 and 961 observations. T-scores standardized to cross-sectional BASE sample at T1 (N = 516, M = 50, SD = 10). Standard errors in parentheses. AIC = Akaike Information Criterion; −2LL = −2 Log Likelihood, relative model fit statistics.

p = .068,

p < .05,

^**

p < .01,

^***

p < .001.