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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2018 May;33(3):439–447. doi: 10.1037/pag0000248

Table 4.

Hazard Ratios for Mortality Risk Associated with Higher Levels of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB): Individual-Level and Within-Pair Difference Effects of Life Satisfaction and Affect

Individual-level analyses Within-pair analyses

All twins DZ twins MZ twins
HR (95% CI) p-value HR (95% CI) p-value HR (95% CI) p-value

Affect N=6,802 N=2,283 N=2,102
 Affect 0.77 (0.74, 0.80) <0.0001 0.76 (0.69, 0.83) <0.0001 0.77 (0.68, 0.87) <0.0001
 Age at intake 0.89 (0.89, 0.90) <0.0001 0.91 (0.89, 0.93) <0.0001 0.91 (0.90, 0.93) <0.0001
 Sex (female) 0.56 (0.51, 0.61) <0.0001 0.64 (0.55, 0.74) <0.0001 0.68 (0.56, 0.82) <0.0001
 Cohort (MADT) 0.68 (0.57, 0.82) <0.0001 0.72 (0.54, 0.98) 0.034 0.98 (0.70, 1.39) 0.927
Affect adjusted N=6,674 N=2,253 N=2,066
 Affect 0.85 (0.81, 0.88) <0.0001 0.82 (0.75, 0.90) <0.0001 0.82 (0.72, 0.92) 0.001
 Age at intake 0.88 (0.87, 0.89) <0.0001 0.90 (0.88, 0.91) <0.0001 0.90 (0.89, 0.92) <0.0001
 Sex (female) 0.53 (0.49, 0.58) <0.0001 0.61 (0.52, 0.71) <0.0001 0.65 (0.54, 0.79) <0.0001
 Cohort (MADT) 0.60 (0.50, 0.72) <0.0001 0.65 (0.48, 0.89) 0.008 0.88 (0.61, 1.26) 0.484
 Number of medications 1.13 (1.11, 1.15) <0.0001 1.13 (1.10, 1.16) <0.0001 1.11 (1.07, 1.16) <0.0001
 Cognitive score 0.82 (0.79, 0.85) <0.0001 0.82 (0.76, 0.88) <0.0001 0.80 (0.73, 0.89) <0.0001
Affect fully adjusted N=6,669 N=2,233 N=2,065
 Affect 0.90 (0.87, 0.94) <0.0001 0.88 (0.79, 0.96) 0.007 0.85 (0.75, 0.96) 0.011
 Age at intake 0.86 (0.86, 0.87) <0.0001 0.88 (0.87, 0.90) <0.0001 0.89 (0.87, 0.91) <0.0001
 Sex (female) 0.51 (0.47, 0.56) <0.0001 0.59 (0.51, 0.69) <0.0001 0.63 (0.53, 0.76) <0.0001
 Cohort (MADT) 0.44 (0.37, 0.54) <0.0001 0.48 (0.35, 0.66) <0.0001 0.70 (0.48, 1.00) 0.050
 Number of medications 1.09 (1.07, 1.11) <0.0001 1.09 (1.06, 1.12) <0.0001 1.07 (1.03, 1.11) <0.001
 Cognitive score 0.88 (0.84, 0.91) <0.0001 0.87 (0.81, 0.94) <0.001 0.84 (0.76, 0.93) 0.001
 Physical health rating 0.73 (0.70, 0.77) <0.0001 0.73 (0.68, 0.79) <0.0001 0.72 (0.65, 0.79) <0.0001
Life satisfaction N=6,800 N=2,282 N=2,101
 Life satisfaction 0.75 (0.72, 0.78) <0.0001 0.75 (0.68, 0.82) <0.0001 0.78 (0.70, 0.87) <0.0001
 Age at intake 0.89 (0.89, 0.90) <0.0001 0.91 (0.89, 0.93) <0.0001 0.92 (0.90, 0.94) <0.0001
 Sex (female) 0.57 (0.53, 0.63) <0.0001 0.65 (0.56, 0.76) <0.0001 0.68 (0.57, 0.82) <0.0001
 Cohort (MADT) 0.71 (0.60, 0.85) <0.001 0.73 (0.54, 0.98) 0.035 1.07 (0.76, 1.51) 0.708
Life satisfaction adjusted N=6,673 N=2,235 N=2,065
 Life satisfaction 0.82 (0.78, 0.85) <0.0001 0.79 (0.72, 0.87) <0.0001 0.83 (0.74, 0.92) 0.001
 Age at intake 0.88 (0.87, 0.89) <0.0001 0.90 (0.88, 0.91) <0.0001 0.91 (0.89, 0.93) <0.0001
 Sex (female) 0.54 (0.49, 0.59) <0.0001 0.61 (0.52, 0.71) <0.0001 0.65 (0.54, 0.79) <0.0001
 Cohort (MADT) 0.61 (0.51, 0.73) <0.0001 0.65 (0.47, 0.89) 0.006 0.92 (0.64, 1.32) 0.653
 Number of medications 1.13 (1.11, 1.15) <0.0001 1.13 (1.10, 1.16) <0.0001 1.12 (1.08, 1.16) <0.0001
 Cognitive score 0.82 (0.79, 0.85) <0.0001 0.82 (0.76, 0.88) <0.0001 0.80 (0.72, 0.88) <0.0001
Life satisfaction fully adjusted N=6,668 N=2,233 N=2,064
 Life satisfaction 0.88 (0.84, 0.92) <0.0001 0.84 (0.76, 0.93) <0.001 0.88 (0.79, 0.99) 0.026
 Age at intake 0.86 (0.86, 0.87) <0.0001 0.88 (0.87, 0.90) <0.0001 0.89 (0.88, 0.91) <0.0001
 Sex (female) 0.51 (0.47, 0.56) <0.0001 0.59 (0.51, 0.69) <0.0001 0.64 (0.53, 0.77) <0.0001
 Cohort (MADT) 0.46 (0.38, 0.55) <0.0001 0.48 (0.35, 0.67) <0.0001 0.71 (0.49, 1.03) 0.068
 Number of medications 1.09 (1.07, 1.11) <0.0001 1.09 (1.06, 1.12) <0.0001 1.07 (1.03, 1.11) <0.001
 Cognitive score 0.87 (0.84, 0.91) <0.0001 0.87 (0.81, 0.94) <0.001 0.84 (0.76, 0.92) <0.001
 Physical health rating 0.74 (0.71, 0.78) <0.0001 0.74 (0.69, 0.81) <0.0001 0.72 (0.65, 0.80) <0.0001

Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) and p-values for both measures of SWB in the combined sample. Unadjusted models include age at intake and sex as covariates, adjusted models include age at intake, sex, number of medications, and cognitive scores as covariates, fully adjusted models additionally include physical health functioning. Sample sizes for within-pair analyses are not necessarily even because, while only complete pairs are used in estimating the effect of SWB, incomplete pairs add information to the effects of the covariates. The within-pair analyses using gamma between-within models are able to estimate the effects of the covariates like sex and age even though these are shared within a twin pair. These estimates are the effect of the covariate holding the twin pair mean and individual score on SWB constant, similar to the individual-level effect of these covariates.