Table 4.
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity and Midlife Generativity on Later Life Health Status: Nested OLS Regression Models
| Independent variables | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | β | (SE) | b | β | (SE) | b | β | (SE) | b | β | (SE) | |
| Childhood adversity | ||||||||||||
| Harsh parenting | −0.03 | −0.02 | (0.06) | −0.01 | −0.01 | (0.06) | −0.10 | −0.07 | (0.08) | −0.01 | −0.01 | (0.06) |
| Lower social class | −0.26 | −0.26*** | (0.04) | −0.25 | −0.24*** | (0.04) | −0.25 | −0.24*** | (0.04) | −0.27 | −0.26*** | (0.06) |
| Generativity | 0.32 | 0.09* | (0.15) | 0.34 | 0.09* | (0.15) | 0.33 | 0.09* | (0.15) | |||
| Interaction terms | ||||||||||||
| Generativity × harsh parenting | 0.22 | 0.10 | (0.12) | |||||||||
| Generativity × lower social class | 0.05 | 0.03 | (0.08) | |||||||||
| Model fit | ||||||||||||
| R 2 | 0.067 | 0.074 | 0.079 | 0.074 | ||||||||
| R 2 change | — | 0.007 | 0.005 | 0.001a | ||||||||
| F change | 21.03*** | 4.46* | 3.46 | 0.39a | ||||||||
Notes. n = 593.
aComparing Model 2 with Model 4.
***p < .001. *p < .05.