Table 6.
Logistic regression analyses testing optimism and spontaneous self-affirmation as simultaneous predictors of subjective cognitive and physical impairment and information seeking when controlling for sociodemographic factors.
| Subjective cognitive impairment |
Subjective physical impairment |
Health information seeking |
Cancer information seeking |
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| B | SE | OR | 95% CI | B | SE | OR | 95% CI | B | SE | OR | 95% CI | B | SE | OR | 95% CI | |
| Optimism | −0.91** | 0.25 | 0.40 | .25, .65 | −0.42* | 0.20 | 0.65 | .44, .97 | −0.13 | 0.20 | 0.88 | .59, 1.31 | 0.02 | 0.23 | 1.02 | .65, 1.59 |
| Spontaneous self-affirmation |
−0.27 | 0.26 | 0.76 | .46, 1.26 | −0.10 | 0.19 | 0.90 | .62, 1.31 | 0.35^ | 0.19 | 1.41 | .98, 2.03 | 0.46* | 0.21 | 1.59 | 1.05, 2.41 |
| Age | -- | -- | -- | 0.04** | 0.01 | 1.04 | 1.02, 1.07 | −0.01 | 0.01 | 0.99 | .97, 1.01 | −0.04* | 0.01 | 0.96 | .94, .99 | |
| Education | −0.63* | 0.31 | 0.53 | .29, .98 | −0.57* | 0.24 | 0.57 | .36, .90 | 0.82** | 0.24 | 2.28 | 1.43, 3.63 | 0.84** | 0.28 | 2.32 | 1.35, 4.00 |
| White | -- | -- | -- | 1.18^ | 0.66 | 3.26 | .89, 11.94 | -- | -- | -- | 1.07* | 0.47 | 2.92 | 1.16, 7.35 | ||
| Black or African American |
2.29** | 0.75 | 9.87 | 2.40, 40.51 | -- | -- | -- | 0.73 | 0.59 | 2.08 | .66, 6.57 | |||||
**
p<.01
*
p<.05
^
p<.10
Note: Sociodemographic factors were included as control variables only if they were significantly associated with a particular outcome at the bivariate level in preliminary analyses.