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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2018 Oct;37(10):959–967. doi: 10.1037/hea0000643

Table 1.

Covariates by tertilesa of baseline (Wave 3) psychological well-being (as assessed by the CASP-17; N=6,565).

Low
Psychological
Well-Being
N=2,242
(34.2%)
Moderate
Psychological
Well-Being
N=1,998
(30.4%)
High
Psychological
Well-Being
N=2,325
(35.4%)
p-valueb
Mean Psychological Well-Being Score at
    W3 (SD)
29.0 (5.46) 38.7 (1.70) 45.1 (2.33)
Mean Age at W3 (SD) 65.1 (10.5) 65.5 (9.85) 64.5 (8.98) 0.007
Mean Weekly Income at W3 (SD) 265.0 (187.3) 311.1 (235.8) 361.0 (297.2) <.0001
Gender
 Men
 Women

1002 (44.7%)
1240 (55.3%)

881 (44.1%)
1117 (55.9%)

1043 (44.9%)
1282 (55.1%)
0.871
Race
 White
 Non-white

2187 (97.6%)
55 (2.45%)

1967 (98.5%)
31 (1.55%)

2294 (98.7%)
31 (1.33%)
0.011
Education at W3
 University degree
 Higher education, but no degree
 A level
 O level
 Less than O level

304 (13.6%)
295 (13.2%)
173 (7.72%)
427 (19.1%)
1043 (46.5%)

378 (18.9%)
324 (16.2%)
143 (7.16%)
373 (18.7%)
780 (39.0%)

513 (22.1%)
405 (17.4%)
201 (8.65%)
429 (18.5%)
777 (33.4%)
<.0001
Employment status at W3 <.0001
 Working 706 (31.5%) 739 (37.0%) 876 (37.7%)
 Not working 1536 (68.5%) 1259 (63.0%) 1449 (62.3%)
Chronic conditions by W3
 One or more
 None

1529 (68.2%)
713 (31.8%)

1172 (58.7%)
826 (41.3%)

1159 (49.9%)
1166 (50.2%)
<.0001
Depression at W3
 Depressed
 Not depressed

349 (15.6%)
1893 (84.4%)

128 (6.41%)
1870 (93.6%)

88 (3.78%)
2237 (96.2%)
<.0001
Smoking status at W3
 Never
 Former
 Current

801 (35.7%)
1042 (46.5%)
399 (17.8%)

801 (40.1%)
948 (47.5%)
249 (12.5%)

996 (42.8%)
1087 (46.8%)
242 (10.4%)
<.0001
Physical Activity Level at W3
 Sedentary/Low
 Moderate/High

853 (38.1%)
1389 (62.0%)

493 (24.7%)
1505 (75.3%)

401 (17.3%)
1924 (82.8%)
<.0001
Mean BMI (per kg/m2) at W4 (SD) 28.6 (5.56)
N=1587
28.2 (5.04)
N=1558
28.0 (5.22)
N=1863
0.002
a

CASP-17 scores ≤35 indicated low psychological well-being, >35 or <42 indicated moderate psychological well-being, and ≥42 indicated high psychological well-being.

b

p-value comes from χ2 or analysis of variance.