Table 3.

Summary of the Regression Predicting the Subjective Well-being Indicators

		Total PGCMS score		Attitude toward one’s aging		Satisfaction with social relations		Psychological comfort
Model	Variable	β	p	β	p	β	p	β	p
1: Sociodemographic	Culturea	−.16	.57	.08	.79	−.49	.09	.12	.66
	Age	.03	.70	.01	.86	.06	.39	−.02	.75
	Gender	.02	.82	.05	.50	.00	.96	−.02	.78
	Education	−.09	.25	−.06	.42	−.03	.69	−.12	.12
	ΔR2	.02	.51	.02	.42	.06	.04	.04	.17
2: Social	Living at home	.07	.40	.04	.65	.09	.27	.02	.84
	Living alone	−.07	.46	−.02	.87	−.11	.23	−.02	.86
	ΔR2	.01	.51	.00	.75	.01	.27	.00	.79
3: Health	Cognitive function	−.19	.06	−.07	.50	−.16	.12	−.22	.03
	Vision problem	−.05	.59	−.02	.86	−.03	.75	−.08	.42
	Hearing problem	−.24	.01	−.18	.06	−.12	.21	−.25	< .01
	Number of diseases	−.08	.46	−.12	.27	.06	.61	−.14	.19
	ADL	.23	.05	.15	.22	.26	.02	.10	.40
	ΔR2	.12	< .001	.06	.05	.07	.02	.12	< .001
4: Interaction	Cul × Living at home	.11	.68	.17	.53	.20	.45	−.18	.49
	Cul × Living alone	−.11	.16	−.17	.03	−.05	.54	−.03	.73
	Cul × Cognitive function	.17	.09	.05	.62	.17	.09	.17	.09
	Cul × Vision problem	.03	.81	.03	.84	.03	.81	.01	.95
	Cul × Hearing problem	−.03	.82	−.04	.80	.00	.99	−.04	.75
	Cul × Number of diseases	.01	.91	.05	.66	−.07	.52	.07	.53
	Cul × ADL	−.10	.39	−.11	.36	−.05	.69	−.07	.53
	ΔR2	.04	.43	.04	.38	.02	.68	.03	.61
Total R2		.18	< .01	.13	.19	.17	.03	.18	.01

Notes: N = 184.

Standardized and R-squared coefficients significant at p < .05 are reported in bold.

ΔR² = independent explained variances of each predictive model determined by entering all of the predictors in the last step of the multiple hierarchical analysis.

ADL = Activities of Daily Living; PGCMS = Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale; Cul = Culture.

^a0 = US, 1 = Japan.