Table 3.

Estimates of the multi-variable linear regression model 4 in which a subjective well-being measure in 2003 predicts health behavior sum score in 2012.

	Level	Estimate	Standard error	p-value
Intercept		1.75	0.051	<0.001
SWB2003		–0.019	0.0043	<0.001
HBSS2003		0.49	0.0088	<0.001
Age (1998)	20–24	–0.031	0.023	0.017
	30–34	–0.041	0.022	0.066
	40–44	–0.058	0.020	0.005
	50–54	Reference
Gender	Male	–0.10	0.016	<0.001
	Female	Reference
Education (1998)	No professional education	4.8*10−6	0.076	1.0
	Vocational school	Reference
	College	0.047	0.053	0.37
	University or higher	–0.036	0.064	0.58
Diseases (2003)	0	0.051	0.021	0.018
	1	0.041	0.019	0.032
	2 or more	Reference
SWB2003*education	No professional education	–8.6*10-4	0.0079	0.91
	Vocational school	Reference
	College	0.0030	0.0058	0.60
	University or higher	0.024	0.0071	< 0.001

Results of Finnish population-based HeSSup-study.

SWB₂₀₀₃ = Subjective well-being at baseline in 2003, lower scores indicating better subjective well-being.

HBSS₂₀₀₃ = Health behavior sum score score i.e. number of protective health behaviors at baseline in 2003.

Diseases (2003) = Number of the diseases participants reported at baseline in 2003. List of diseases is found in the Appendix A.