Table 2.

Summary of the moderation model for variables predicting peritraumatic distress among older adult (N = 277)

	ΔR2	B	β	t	p
Step 1	0.092***
Age		−0.14	−0.140	−2.11	0.036
Gender		1.59	0.108	1.56	0.119
Education		−1.58	−0.212	−3.18	0.002
Self-rated health		−1.03	−0.136	−2.08	0.039
Marital status		−0.53	−0.036	−0.53	0.596
Step 2	0.023
Chronic diseases		−2.42	−0.179	−2.37	0.019
Exposure to COVID-19		−0.112	−0.018	−0.29	0.774
Step 3	0.212***
Subjective accelerated aging		2.245	0.301	5.13	<0.001
COVID-19 health worries		2.530	0.345	5.88	<0.001
Step 4	0.77***
COVID-19 health worries × subjective accelerated aging		2.186	0.299	5.30	<0.001

Total R² = 0.404***.

Note: Gender (dummy): 1 – male, 2 – female.

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.