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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Res. 2013 Jul-Aug;62(4):218–225. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0b013e31829999d7

Table 2.

Two-Level Poisson HLM for Positive Emotional Expression and Negative Emotional Expression

Variable Positive Emotional Expression
Negative Emotional Expression
b (SE) RR 95% CI b (SE) RR 95% CI
Intercept 2.16 ** (0.17) 8.71 [6.16 – 12.32] 0.04 (0.22) 1.04 [0.66 – 1.66]
Observation-level predictors
Time of day 0.05 ** (0.01) 1.05 [1.02 – 1.08]
Person-level predictors
Mobility (assisted) 0.32* (0.15) 1.37 [1.00 – 1.89]
Gender (female) 0.28 (0.16) 1.33 [0.94 – 1.87] 0.62* (0.23) 1.85 [1.15 – 2.99]
Age 0.03* (0.01) 1.03 [1.01 – 1.06]
Education (high school) −0.21 (0.20) 0.81 [0.53 – 1.22]
Education (college or higher) −0.62* (0.25) 0.54 [0.32 – 0.91]
Random effects Variance χ2 Variance χ2

 Intercept 0.02 30.80 0.14 66.32**
 Time of day 0.00 24.76
 Level-1 7.92 χ2 1.34

Note. SE = standard error; RR = rate ratio; CI = confidence interval.

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01.