Table 5.

Associations between social participation and health and well-being: OLS results.

	Own social participation profile						Partner's
	Total		Single		Partnered
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
Reference class: Relatively inactive	Outcome: Self-assessed health
Moderately active (informal)	0.047**	0.026	0.058*	0.040	0.036	0.017	0.014	−0.003
	(0.016)	(0.015)	(0.029)	(0.027)	(0.020)	(0.018)	(0.023)	(0.022)
Moderately active (formal)	0.093**	0.016	0.050	−0.028	0.097**	0.023	0.104**	0.066
	(0.032)	(0.030)	(0.071)	(0.063)	(0.036)	(0.034)	(0.038)	(0.037)
Highly active	0.135***	0.073***	0.173***	0.104***	0.110***	0.060**	0.022	0.004
	(0.017)	(0.016)	(0.032)	(0.030)	(0.020)	(0.019)	(0.024)	(0.023)
	Outcome: Frequency of negative affect
Moderately active (informal)	−0.069	−0.014	0.056	0.071	−0.082	−0.046	−0.140	−0.067
	(0.088)	(0.084)	(0.163)	(0.158)	(0.103)	(0.099)	(0.119)	(0.116)
Moderately active (formal)	−0.342*	−0.024	−0.470	−0.329	−0.228	0.089	−0.334	−0.266
	(0.168)	(0.153)	(0.295)	(0.263)	(0.203)	(0.186)	(0.238)	(0.231)
Highly active	−0.536***	−0.291***	−0.593***	−0.509**	−0.431**	−0.233*	−0.053	−0.047
	(0.090)	(0.087)	(0.171)	(0.174)	(0.106)	(0.109)	(0.128)	(0.123)
	Outcome: Frequency of positive affect
Moderately active (informal)	0.246***	0.170*	0.381**	0.331*	0.140	0.086	−0.140	−0.178
	(0.075)	(0.073)	(0.132)	(0.130)	(0.089)	(0.088)	(0.103)	(0.101)
Moderately active (formal)	0.205	−0.021	0.085	−0.096	0.164	−0.021	−0.313	−0.443
	(0.160)	(0.157)	(0.329)	(0.327)	(0.181)	(0.178)	(0.253)	(0.256)
Highly active	0.580***	0.374***	0.776***	0.599***	0.419***	0.273**	−0.104	−0.167
	(0.079)	(0.079)	(0.163)	(0.165)	(0.091)	(0.090)	(0.110)	(0.108)
	Outcome: Life satisfaction
Moderately active (informal)	0.225***	0.165**	0.144	0.115	0.233***	0.189**	0.018	0.003
	(0.058)	(0.055)	(0.115)	(0.110)	(0.063)	(0.061)	(0.066)	(0.065)
Moderately active (formal)	0.215*	0.125	0.143	0.137	0.193	0.126	0.097	0.065
	(0.106)	(0.105)	(0.249)	(0.251)	(0.122)	(0.110)	(0.135)	(0.134)
Highly active	0.434***	0.320***	0.330*	0.324*	0.400***	0.326***	0.031	0.015
	(0.061)	(0.059)	(0.134)	(0.133)	(0.066)	(0.064)	(0.071)	(0.071)
Control variables	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes
Number of observations	5167	5167	1490	1490	3677	3677	2426	2426

Source: Swiss Household Panel 2013 and 2016, own calculations. Notes: The table reports estimated coefficients of the indicators for the so1cial participation profiles in pooled OLS models with outcomes self-assessed health, frequency of negative affect, frequency of positive affect and life satisfaction. Odd columns represent simplified regressions without further controls, even columns represent pooled OLS regressions controlling for the background characteristics listed in Table 1. Columns 1 and 2 represent the full sample, columns 3 and 4 represent single older adults, columns 5 and 6 represent partnered older adults, and columns 7 and 8 report the coefficients for the social participation profile of the partner. Heteroscedasticity-robust and cluster-adjusted standard errors in parentheses. Significance levels: * p≤0.05, ** p≤0.01, *** p≤0.001.