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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Int Psychogeriatr. 2014 Nov 5;27(4):601–609. doi: 10.1017/S104161021400221X

Table 2.

Associations of self-perceived successful aging in young-old and old-old adults

VARIABLES YOUNG-OLD (Y-O)
AGE 50–74 (N = 365)
STANDARDIZED
COEFFICIENT
ESTIMATE
(T-VALUE ,
P-VALUE)
OLD-OLD (O-O) AGE
75–99 (N = 641)
STANDARDIZED
COEFFICIENT
ESTIMATE
(T-VALUE ,
P-VALUE)
SIGNIFICANT
DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN O-O
AND Y-O
STANDARDIZED
COEFFICIENT
ESTIMATE (T-VALUE ,
P-VALUE)
Intercept −1.89 (−4.76, <0.001)** −1.72 (−2.39, 0.017) 0.17 (0.28, 0.781)
Age 0.02 (4.39, <0.001)** 0.02 (2.15, 0.032) 0.00 (−0.58, 0.564)
Gender −0.22 (−2.79, <0.001)** −0.02 (−0.16, 0.872) 0.20 (1.95, 0.052)
Marital status 0.23 (2.97, <0.001)** 0.10 (0.75, 0.455) −0.14 (−1.34, 0.179)
SF-36 physical composite
 score
0.48 (10.26, <0.001)** 0.25 (3.38, <0.001)** −0.23 (−4.06, <0.001)**
SF-36 mental composite
 score
0.30 (5.27, <0.001)** 0.07 (0.78, 0.436) −0.23 (−3.29, <0.001)**
Telephone interview of
 cognitive status score
−0.06 (−1.41, 0.159) −0.03 (−0.38, 0.700) 0.03 (0.66, 0.512)
Cognitive failures
 questionnaire total
0.14 (3.17, <0.001)** 0.02 (0.23, 0.818) −0.13 (−2.24, 0.026)
Connor-Davidson resilience
 scale score
0.18 (3.70, <0.001)** 0.15 (1.98, 0.049) −0.03 (−0.49, 0.627)
Optimism (life orientation
 test) total
0.24 (5.47, <0.001)** 0.09 (1.33, 0.182) −0.14 (−2.59, 0.010)
PHQ-9 depression severity score −0.08 (−1.54, 0.124) −0.15 (−1.78, 0.076) −0.07 (−1.07, 0.286)
Perceived stress scale score −0.12 (−2.03, 0.043) −0.18 (−1.99, 0.047) −0.07 (−0.93, 0.352)
R 2 0.54
F value 60.4 (19, 987)

Note: *p < 0.01.

**

p < 0.001.

PHQ 9 = Patient Health Questionnaire – 9-item Version.

SF-36 = 36-item Short-Form Health Survey.

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