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. 2022 Oct 25;12:17844. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22862-1

Table 4.

Growth curves per value; no change and linear change; SEM approach lavaan (R; Rosseel, 2012).

Benevolence Universalism Self-direction Stimulation Hedonism Achievement Power Security Conformity
Intercept mean 0.767*** 0.485*** 0.434*** −1.392*** 0.050 −0.327*** −0.924*** 0.744*** 0.163***
Gender (male = 1) −0.185*** −0.200*** −0.062* 0.393*** 0.014 0.091*** 0.263*** −0.188*** −0.125***
Education (high = 1) 0.050* 0.091*** 0.174*** −0.144** −0.028 0.261*** 0.093* −0.247*** −0.250***
Age° 0.002 0.011*** 0.002 −0.023*** −0.015*** 0.002 −0.001 0.012*** 0.009*
Baby-boomers1 0.014 −0.108*** −0.014 0.279*** 0.192*** −0.161*** 0.025 −0.155*** −0.073
Generation-X −0.054 −0.323*** −0.107** 0.517*** 0.435*** −0.307*** 0.014 −0.199*** 0.023
Millennials −0.138** −0.498*** −0.393*** 0.977*** 0.554*** −0.271*** 0.201 −0.433*** 0.001
Slope mean −0.005 −0.001 −0.005* 0.008 0.001 −0.003 0.007 0.003 −0.005
Gender (male = 1) 0.004* 0.002 0.000 −0.007 −0.006** 0.003 −0.007 0.005* 0.006*
Education (high = 1) −0.001 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.003 −0.005 −0.007 0.006** −0.002
Age° 0.000 0.000* −0.001** 0.001** 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000* 0.000
Baby-boomers 0.003 0.006* 0.009*** −0.022*** 0.003 0.002 −0.015** 0.012*** 0.002
Generation-X 0.006 0.011*** 0.014*** −0.033*** 0.004 0.005 −0.024*** 0.011** 0.007
Millennials 0.017* 0.018*** 0.022*** −0.054*** 0.009 0.005 −0.043*** 0.027*** −0.001
Intercept variance .157 .123 .173 .609 .145 .170 .443 .211 .283
Slope variance .0003 .0003 .0004 .0015 .0003 .0005 .0017 .0006 .0005
Covariance intercept-slope −.0016 −.0008 −.002 −.009 −.0005 −.003 −.003 −.004 −.003

Associated p-values and confidence intervals can be found in the supplementary materials (SI 11, Table 6.1—6.3).

*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.

1Silent-generation is the reference category. ° mean-centered within generation (i.e., age means age difference within generations).