Attitudes to aging mediate the relationship between older peoples’ subjective health and quality of life in 20 countries

Table 2 Multilevel model for global WHOQOL-BREF

Model	Model parameter	Parameter estimates (95% CI)	−2 Log likelihood
Fixed slope, random Intercept	Fixed effects		43485
	Intercept	28.4 (14.4, 42.4)***
	Health satisfaction	20.4 (19.2, 21.7)***
	Physical change	2.7 (2.5, 2.9)***
	Psychosocial loss	2.2 (2.0, 2.5)***
	Psychosocial growth	1.2 (0.9, 1.4)***
	Age	.03 (−0.1, 0.2)^a
	Sex	−1.1 (−3.1, 0.9)^a
	Variances
	Residual	1076.9 (1032.8, 1122.9)***
	Intercept	82.8 (41.2, 166.8)**
Random slope & intercept	Variances		43470
	Residual	1065.2 (1020.9, 1111.4)***
	Intercept	44.2 (3.6, 549.6)^a
	Health satisfaction	1.8 (0.2, 20.6)^a
	Physical change	0.2 (0.05, 0.5)^a
	Psychosocial loss	0.01 (0.00, 14.5)^a
	Psychosocial growth	0.05 (0.01, 0.4)^a

Age and sex slopes fixed to allow convergence in the random slope and intercept model. Fixed Effects are not shown as they differ only marginally from the fixed slope, random intercept model. CI confidence interval. ^a NS, ** p < .01, *** p < .001.

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