Table 4 Bivariate mixed effects analyses predicting quality of life and posttraumatic stress symptoms two years post-tsunami (N = 574)

From: World assumptions, posttraumatic stress and quality of life after a natural disaster: A longitudinal study

Variable	Quality of life at T₂	Posttraumatic stress at T₂
	b (95% CI)	b (95% CI)
Gender
Male	−0.25 (−0.40, -0.10)***	−0.27 (−0.41, -0.12)***
Female^a	0 (0)	0 (0)
Age	.00 (−0.00, 0.01)	.00 (−0.01, 0.01)
Exposure
Not exposed	0.29 (0.05, 0.53)*	−1.01 (−1.24, -0.79)***
Exposed, but no danger	0.22 (0.04, 0.41)*	−0.48 (−0.67, -0.31)***
In danger^a	0 (0)	0 (0)
Invulnerability	0.11 (0.03, 0.20)**	−0.17 (−0.26, -0.08)***
Just world	0.22 (0.12, 0.31)***	−0.29 (−0.38, -0.20)***
Predictable world	0.06 -(0.01, 0.14)	−0.11 (−0.19, -0.03)**
Controllable world	0.10 (0.02, 0.19)*	−0.24 (−0.33, -0.15)***
Good and benevolent world	0.22 (0.12, 0.31)***	−0.27 (−0.36, -0.18)***
Meaningful life	0.31 (0.23, 0.39)***	−0.09 (−0.17, -0.00)*
Valuable person	0.37 (0.27, 0.47)***	−0.04 (−0.12, 0.04)
Quality of life at T₁	0.62 (0.55, 0.68)***	−0.40 (−0.47, 0.32)***
Posttraumatic stress T₁	−0.34 (−0.42, -0.27)***	0.75 (0.70, 0.81)***

Note: The multilevel regression analysis was controlled for the effect of mutual address. Figures are regression coefficients (confidence intervals in parenthesis). Quality of life and posttraumatic stress symptoms were standardized (Z-values). for comparability. All predictors were measured six months post-tsunami.
^a Females and those respondents exposed to danger were set to have a mean of 0 in the mixed effect models.
* p ≤ .05; ** p ≤ .01; *** p ≤ .001.

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