Table A.2.

Regression Models Estimating Interactive Relations of Belief that Discrimination Made Life Harder, Sex, and Socioeconomic Status with Telomere Length among African Americans

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Age	−0.01	−0.002	−0.002
Depressive symptoms	0.003	0.002	0.002
Waist circumference	<.001	<.001	<.001
Lifetime substance use burden	−0.91	−0.09	−0.09
Discrimination made life harder	−0.42	−0.34 **	−0.45 **
Sex	0.55 ***	0.18	−0.22
SES	−0.05	−0.48	−0.79 *
Discrimination Made Life Harder × Sex		0.25 *	0.44
Discrimination Made Life Harder × SES		0.27 *	0.43 *
Sex × SES		−0.23	0.39 **
Discrimination Made Life Harder × Sex × SES			−0.30

Note. Model 2 (shown in bold above) was retained as the final regression model, and significant effects were interpreted

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001

Model 1 fit: R = .36, R² = .13, R²_{adj = .09}

Model 2 fit: R = .42, R² = .18, R²_{adj =} .13

Model 3 fit: R = .43, R² = .19, R²_{adj = .13}