Table 2.

Regression analysis of ideal life expectancy on fears of death and diseases

Variables	Ideal life expectancy
	β	B	SE(B)	∆R2
Age	0.07*	0.04	0.02
Gender	0.09*	2.02	0.70
Education	0.01	0.04	0.17
Life satisfaction	0.10*	0.47	0.17
Social satisfaction	0.04	0.49	0.40
Self-rated health	0.09*	1.01	0.44
Diagnoses	−0.02	−0.16	0.28
				4.6%**
Fear of death	0.06	0.33	0.19
Fear of diseases	0.01	0.06	0.34
				0.6%*
Fear of death* Fear of diseases	0.08*	0.42	0.18
				0.5%*

Ideal life expectancy is predicted by covariates, fear of death and fear of diseases, as well as their interaction term in a stepwise procedure. Standardized regression weights β, unstandardized regression weights B, as well as their standard errors SE(B) are depicted for the final model including all predictor variables. ∆R² and related F-tests are depicted for the single steps. In exploratory analyses neither self-rated health nor the count of diagnoses moderated the relationship between fear of diseases and ideal life expectancy

**p < 0.001, *p < 0.05