Table 1.

Eudemonic wellbeing and mortality: complete sample

Model	Covariates	Eudemonic wellbeing
		Quartiles	Adjusted hazard ratio (95% C.I.)
Model 1	Age, gender	1 (lowest)	1
		2	0.620 (0.547 to 0.702)
		3	0.547 (0.475 to 0.629)
		4 (highest)	0.422 (0.362 to 0.493)
Model 2	Age, gender, + demographic factorsa	1 (lowest)	1
		2	0.665 (0.586 to 0.754)
		3	0.613 (0.531 to 0.708)
		4 (highest)	0.489 (0.417 to 0.574)
Model 3	Age, gender, + demographic factorsa + health indicatorsb	1 (lowest)	1
		2	0.746 (0.656 to 0.849)
		3	0.733 (0.631 to 0.852)
		4 (highest)	0.624 (0.526 to 0.740)
Model 4	Age, gender, + demographic factorsa + health indicatorsb + depressionc	1 (lowest)	1
		2	0.761 (0.666 to 0.869)
		3	0.753 (0.644 to 0.881)
		4 (highest)	0.643 (0.538 to 0.768)
Model 5	Age, gender, + demographic factorsa + health indicatorsb + depressionc + health behaviors	1 (lowest)	1
		2	0.780 (0.683 to 0.891)
		3	0.805 (0.688 to 0.942)
		4 (highest)	0.697 (0.583 to 0.833)

Reference group is lowest eudemonic well-being group. Deaths: 608/2078 in the lowest, 418/2388 in the second, 289/2151 in the third, and 227/2433 in the highest eudemonic well-being group.

^aDemographic factors: wealth, education, ethnicity, marital status, and employment status

^bHealth indicators: limiting long-standing illness, cancer, CHD, stroke, diabetes, heart failure, and chronic lung disease

^cHistory of depressive illness and elevated scores on the CES-D depression scale

^dHealth behaviors: smoking, physical activity, and alcohol intake