Table 4.

Association between Self-perceptions of Aging and PCS for Urban and Rural Participants

	Urban participants (n = 492)			Rural participants (n = 537)
Variable	Coefficient	95% CI	P	Coefficient	95% CI	P
Self-perceptions of aging
Timeline chronic	−1.17	−2.28, − 0.06	0.038	−3.21	−4.24, − 2.18	<  0.001
Timeline cyclical	− 0.01	− 1.66, 1.64	0.988	− 1.91	− 3.64, − 0.18	0.031
Consequences positive	− 0.19	−1.54, 1.16	0.779	1.15	0.07, 2.24	0.037
Consequences negative	−2.07	−3.43, − 0.71	0.003	1.57	− 0.21, 3.35	0.084
Control positive	2.08	0.70, 3.45	0.003	0.34	−0.92, 1.60	0.596
Control negative	0.26	−1.20, 1.72	0.724	− 1.45	−3.03, 0.13	0.073
Emotional representations	−1.50	−2.97, −0.03	0.045	−4.31	−5.56, −3.05	<  0.001
Controlled variables
Gender (ref: male)	−2.36	−4.22, −0.49	0.013	− 1.81	−3.16, − 0.46	0.009
Age	−0.20	− 0.35, − 0.06	0.006	−0.07	− 0.17, 0.03	0.152
Marital status (ref: single/divorced/widowed)	2.61	−0.17, 5.38	0.065	0.43	−1.35, 2.22	0.663
Educational attainments (ref: junior middle school and below)	−0.53	−2.49, 1.43	0.598	−4.43	−9.16, 0.29	0.066
Living arrangements (ref: alone)	−2.15	−5.78, 1.48	0.246	−1.84	−4.89, 1.21	0.236
BMI	−0.04	−0.32, 0.24	0.789	0.10	−0.07, 0.27	0.254
Blood pressure control (ref: no)	0.68	−1.38, 2.73	0.519	0.16	−1.26, 1.56	0.830
Hypertension duration	−0.10	−0.22, 0.02	0.111	−0.09	−0.20, 0.01	0.069
Comorbidities (ref: no)	−7.34	−9.35, −5.33	< 0.001	−0.15	−1.60, 1.29	0.834

Note. CI confidence interval, PCS physical component summary, BMI body mass index