Table 4.

Two-Phase Growth Model over Distance-to-Death for Life Satisfaction, Change-Point Location at Four Years Prior to Death: The Effects of Covariates.

Parameter	Estimate	SE
Fixed effects
Life satisfaction intercept	43.34 ***	1.26
Life satisfaction pre-terminal slope (15 – 4 years)	− 0.59 ***	0.14
Life satisfaction terminal slope (4 – 0 years)	− 1.16 **	0.35
Age	− 0.15	0.12
Sex	− 1.29	1.69
SES	0.01	0.09
Comorbidities	− 0.18 *	0.08
Dementia	1.17	2.15
Perceptual Speed	0.04	0.11
Age x life satisfaction terminal slope	− 0.05	0.03
Sex x life satisfaction terminal slope	0.37	0.49
SES x life satisfaction terminal slope	− 0.02	0.02
Comorbidities x life satisfaction terminal slope	− 0.03	0.02
Dementia x life satisfaction terminal slope	0.13	0.68
Perceptual Speed x life satisfaction terminal slope	− 0.01	0.03
Random effects
Life satisfaction Variance of intercept	111.81 ***	17.18
Life satisfaction Variance of pre-terminal slope	n. e.
Life satisfaction Variance of terminal slope	4.53 **	1.48
Life satisfaction Covariance intercept, terminal slope	15.56 ***	4.66
Life satisfaction Residual variance	31.34 ***	2.40
AIC	6,844
− 2LL	6,806

Note. N = 414 and 961 observations. T-scores standardized to cross-sectional BASE sample at T1 (N = 516, M = 50, SD = 10). n. e. = not estimated, SES = socioeconomic status. AIC = Akaike Information Criterion; −2LL = −2 Log Likelihood, relative model fit statistics.

^*p < .05,

^**p < .01,

^***p < .001.