Table 5.
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity and Midlife Generativity on Adjustment to Aging: 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 | −0.14 | −0.13** | (0.05) | −0.10 | −0.09* | (0.05) | −0.11 | −0.10 | (0.06) | −0.10 | −0.09* | (0.05) |
| Lower social class | −0.08 | −0.10* | (0.04) | −0.04 | −0.06 | (0.03) | −0.04 | −0.06 | (0.03) | −0.11 | −0.14* | (0.05) |
| Generativity | 0.87 | 0.31*** | (0.12) | 0.87 | 0.31*** | (0.12) | 0.92 | 0.33*** | (0.12) | |||
| Interaction terms | ||||||||||||
| Generativity × harsh parenting | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.10 | |||||||||
| Generativity × lower social class | 0.15 | 0.13* | (0.07) | |||||||||
| Model fit | ||||||||||||
| R 2 | 0.029 | 0.123 | 0.123 | 0.131 | ||||||||
| R 2 change | — | 0.094 | 0.000 | 0.008a | ||||||||
| F change | 7.20** | 52.23*** | 0.13 | 4.73*,a | ||||||||
Notes. n = 492.
aComparing Model 2 with Model 4.
***p < .001. **p < .01. *p < .05.