TABLE 2.

Multilevel models for sense of purpose and depressive symptoms as a predictor of word recall and mental status.

	Word recall		Mental status
Variable	Estimate (SE)	p	Estimate (SE)	p
Within-person effects
CESD (γ30)	−0.02 (0.03)	0.571	−0.01 (0.03)	0.587
Purpose (γ20)	0.21 (0.07)	0.001	0.13 (0.05)	0.010
Purpose × age (γ21)	0.01 (0.01)	0.068	0.02 (0.01)	<0.001
Purpose × sex (γ22)	−0.06 (0.09)	0.507	0.08 (0.06)	0.219
Purpose × education (γ23)	0.01 (0.01)	0.605	−0.01 (0.01)	0.601
Purpose × CESD (γ24)	−0.01 (0.03)	0.731	−0.00 (0.02)	0.850
Between-person effects
Intercept (γ00)	8.43 (0.06)	<0.001	12.90 (0.05)	<0.001
Age (γ01)	−0.14 (0.01)	<0.001	−0.04 (0.01)	<0.001
Sex (female) (γ02)	0.97 (0.08)	<0.001	−0.34 (0.07)	<0.001
Education (γ03)	0.30 (0.01)	<0.001	0.32(0.01)	<0.001
Purpose BP (γ04)	0.36 (0.06)	<0.001	0.11(0.04)	0.011
CESD BP (γ05)	−0.17 (0.03)	<0.001	−0.14 (0.03)	<0.001
Purpose × CESD (γ06)	−0.06 (0.03)	0.041	−0.01 (0.03)	0.676
Slope (γ10)	−0.17 (0.01)	<0.001	−0.13 (0.01)	<0.001
Age (γ11)	−0.01 (0.00)	<0.001	−0.01 (0.00)	<0.001
Sex (female) (γ12)	0.00 (0.01)	0.830	−0.00 (0.01)	0.695
Education (γ13)	−0.00 (0.00)	0.206	0.00 (0.00)	0.216
Purpose BP (γ14)	0.01 (0.01)	0.396	0.01 (0.01)	0.112
CESD BP (γ15)	0.00 (0.01)	0.932	−0.01 (0.00)	0.009
Purpose × CESD (γ16)	−0.00 (0.01)	0.844	−0.00 (0.00)	0.407
Random effects
Level-1 residual (eti)	4.20 (0.12)	<0.001	1.73 (0.06)	<0.001
Intercept variance (μ0i)	3.91 (0.15)	<0.001	3.06 (0.13)	<0.001
Slope variance (μ1i)	0.01 (0.00)	<0.001	0.01(0.00)	<0.001

CESD, number of depressive symptoms on the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale.