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. 2020 Jan 16;76(3):551–562. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa007

Table 5.

Multilevel Linear Models Predicting Participants’ Mood Throughout the Day From Closeness of Friendships

Positive mood Negative mood
Variable B SE B SE
Fixed effects
 Intercept 3.41*** 0.05 1.21*** 0.02
 Within-person effectsa (assessment-level)
  Social convoy friend 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.01
  Non social convoy friend 0.08*** 0.01 −0.02* 0.01
  Romantic partner 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.01
  Family member 0.05*** 0.01 0.02* 0.01
  Other social partner −0.02 0.01 0.01 0.01
 Between-person effectsb
  Social convoy friend −0.12 0.25 −0.10 0.10
  Non social convoy friend 0.14 0.23 0.06 0.09
  Romantic partner 0.09 0.14 0.03 0.06
  Family member 0.09 0.15 0.15* 0.06
  Other social partner 0.03 0.21 0.07 0.09
 Covariates
  Agec −0.01 0.01 0.00 0.00
  Genderc −0.06 0.09 0.06 0.04
  Educationc −0.03 0.03 0.00 0.01
  Healthc 0.12** 0.04 −0.08*** 0.02
  Minority statusc 0.09 0.11 −0.07 0.04
  % of friends in social convoyc 0.26 0.26 0.09 0.10
  % of in-person contactd 0.32 0.22 −0.17 0.09
  Diverse activityd 0.02*** 0.00 0.00 0.00
Random effects
 Intercept VAR (Level 2: Participant) 0.47*** 0.04 0.08*** 0.01
 Residual VAR 0.17*** 0.00 0.06*** 0.00
 −2 log-likelihood 7570.3 1420.8

Notes. Assessments n = 6,262 from 313 participants. Positive and negative mood were continuous outcomes, 1 (not at all) to 5 (a great deal).

aThe predictor was binary variables representing any encounters with four different types of social partners.

bThe person mean variables representing the proportion of assessments across study that each participant had encounters with different types of social partners.

cParticipant-level covariates.

dAssessment-level covariates.

*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.