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Published in final edited form as: J Health Soc Behav. 2010 Dec;51(4):478–496. doi: 10.1177/0022146510386796

Table 2.

Ordered Probit Regression: General Health Regressed on Educational Attainment, Academic Performance, Personality, and Psychological Well-being; Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, 1957–2003/2005^a

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5	Model 6
Educational Attainment (reference = high school degree)
Associate’s degree	.0135	.0063	.0056	.0043	.0001	−.0013
	(.0330)	(.0330)	(.0330)	(.0331)	(.0331)	(.0331)
Bachelor’s degree	.0887^***	.0855^***	.0841^***	.0639^**	.0642^**	.0631^**
	(.0224)	(.0225)	(.0224)	(.0231)	(.0232)	(.0231)
Master’s degree	.0753^**	.0718^*	.0672^*	.0390	.0400	.0357
	(.0283)	(.0285)	(.0283)	(.0293)	(.0295)	(.0293)
Doctoral/Professional degree	.1734^***	.1758^***	.1600^***	.1370^**	.1431^**	.1290^**
	(.0484)	(.0485)	(.0483)	(.0487)	(.0488)	(.0487)
High School Academic Performance
High School Rank (reference = quartile 1 category)
Quartile 2 Category				.0503^*	.0510^*	.0494^*
				(.0240)	(.0239)	(.0239)
Quartile 3 Category				.0461^†	.0444^†	.0404^†
				(.0251)	(.0250)	(.0250)
Quartile 4 Category				.0718^*	.0719^*	.0656^*
				(.0289)	(.0289)	(.0288)
Outstanding student				.0759^**	.0717^**	.0740^**
				(.0251)	(.0250)	(.0250)
Studies interesting (reference = No special influence)				.0515^**	.0444^*	.0452^*
				(.0185)	(.0185)	(.0185)
Studies not interesting				.0607^*	.0645^*	.0629^*
				(.0277)	(.0275)	(.0276)
Personality
Conscientiousness		.0054^**			.0048^*
		(.0019)			(.0019)
Extraversion		.0038^*			.0040^**
		(.0015)			(.0015)
Agreeableness		−.0006			−.0009
		(.0018)			(.0018)
Neuroticism		−.0049^***			−.0049^**
		(.0017)			(.0017)
Openness		.0010			.0006
		(.0017)			(.0017)
Psychological Well-being
Autonomy			−.0003			−.0001
			(.0017)			(.0017)
Environmental mastery			.0020			.0019
			(.0023)			(.0023)
Personal growth			−.0007			−.0007
			(.0019)			(.0019)
Positive relations with others			−.0019			−.0017
			(.0019)			(.0019)
Purpose in life			.0058^**			.0054^*
			(.0022)			(.0022)
Self-acceptance			.0032			.0031
			(.0021)			(.0020)
Log-likelihood	−4,009.0314	−3,990.6625	−3,992.4804	−3,993.0224	−3,976.1873	−3,978.2612
LR chi²(df)	1,578.89(28)	1,615.63(33)	1,61 1.99(34)	1,610.91(34)	1,644.58(39)	1,640.43(40)
Probability > chi²	.0000	.0000	.0000	.0000	.0000	.0000
Pseudo R²	.1645	.1683	.1680	.1679	.1714	.1709

^†

p< .10

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p< .001

Note:

All models control for baseline health measures from 1992 (chronic conditions, physical symptom severity, and general health), childhood IQ, parental SES, childhood health, and demographics. Standard errors in parentheses. N = 4,928 for all six models.