Table 1.

Sample descriptives by vital status in imputed person-year dataset.

	Survived	Died	Significant difference by vital status t or F
Positive Affect, M	0.01	−0.43	21.76***
Life Satisfaction, M	−0.02	−0.27	12 74***
Purpose in Life, M	0.03	−0.52	29.80***
Social Support, M	−0.04	−0.02	0.99
Optimism, M	−0.001	−0.27	18.05***
Education in years, M	13.1	11.9	13.34***
Age in years, M	68.2	79.6	56.72***
Gender, prop. men	.46	.48	2.67**
Race/ethnicity, prop.			10.03***
Non-Hispanic White	.78	.80
Non-Hispanic Black	.10	.12
Hispanic	.09	.07
Non-Hispanic Other	.03	.02
Marital status, prop.			287.81***
Married or partnered	.66	.48
Previously married	.28	.47
Never married	.06	.05
Maximum of parental education in years, M	11.1	9.6	12 93***
N person-years	193,981	4,934

Note. Standard deviations are unavailable in imputed data. For means and standard deviations in unweighted, non-imputed dataset, see Table S1. Test of differences by vital status from logistic regression with each variable predicting vital status. All psychological well-being dimensions are z-scored with a mean of zero and standard deviation of one.

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