Table 4.

Perceived Economic Position and Objective Economic Position as Predictors of Environmental Mastery: Results from OLS Regression Models ^a (National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project)

	Model 1a		Model 1b		Model 2a		Model 2b
	Coeff.	SE	Coeff.	SE	Coeff.	SE	Coeff.	SE
Perceived Economic Position
Relative to Peers
“far below average”	−0.58	0.19 **			−0.51	0.19 **
“below average”	−0.23	0.13 †			−0.20	0.13
“average”	-				-
“above average”	0.17	0.11			0.15	0.11
“far above average”	0.42	0.15 **			0.38	0.16 *
Perceived Economic Position
Relative to American Families
“far below average”			−0.54	0.18 **			−0.45	0.18 *
“below average”			−0.08	0.13			−0.05	0.13
“average”			-				-
“above average”			0.26	0.10 *			0.24	0.10 *
“far above average”			0.42	0.13 **			0.39	0.14 **
Education
<High school					-		-
High school					0.26	0.16	0.25	0.15
Some college					0.09	0.16	0.07	0.16
College or more					0.26	0.17	0.21	0.17
Income quintile
1					−0.12	0.16	−0.13	0.16
2-5					-		-
Assets quintile
1					−0.07	0.14	−0.07	0.14
2-5					-		-
Constant	11.58	3.74 ***	10.92	3.77 ***	11.16	3.71 **	10.66	3.73 **
n	2208		2208		2208		2208
df	(16, 2942)		(16, 2942)		(21, 2864)		(21, 2864)
F-statistic	50.98 ***		50.70 ***		38.66 ***		38.45 ***

Notes: Significance levels for two-tailed tests of coefficients:

^†p<0.10;

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

^***p<0.001.

^aAll models also include measures of age, age-squared, gender, race/ethnicity, marital status, self-rated physical health, current employment, retirement, self-esteem, and anxiety.

Weights adjust for differential probabilities of selection and nonresponse.