Research Article

Resilience Significantly Contributes to Exceptional Longevity

Table 5

Odds ratios of the impact of the resilience on nonagenarians’ likelihood to become a centenarian based on multivariate logistic regressions.

Dependent variable: whether survive to age ≥100Model 1Model 2Model 3Model 4Model 5
Total sampleTotal sampleTotal sampleMenWomen

Higher resilience (Lower) 1 . 7 4 6    [ 0 . 2 1 0 ] 1 . 8 7 7    [ 0 . 2 3 4 ] 1 . 4 3 1    [ 0 . 1 9 0 ] 1 . 5 1 5    [ 0 . 3 7 4 ] 1 . 4 0 4    [ 0 . 2 3 0 ]
Demographic
characteristic
Age—continuous variable 1 . 4 9 2    [ 0 . 0 9 7 ] 1 . 5 1 7    [ 0 . 1 0 0 ] 1 . 8 7 7    [ 0 . 2 2 3 ] 1 . 4 0 5    [ 0 . 1 1 6 ]
Male (Female) 0 . 7 0 3    [ 0 . 1 0 8 ] 0 . 6 0 3    [ 0 . 0 9 6 ]
Han (Minority) 0 . 6 7 0    [ 0 . 1 6 1 ] 0 . 6 3 4    [ 0 . 1 5 6 ] 0.515   [ 0 . 2 1 3 ] 0.664   [ 0 . 2 1 1 ]
Urban (Rural)0.826   [ 0 . 1 0 8 ] 0.869   [ 0 . 1 1 8 ] 0 . 6 7 5    [ 0 . 1 5 9 ] 1.023   [ 0 . 1 7 6 ]
Married (Notmarried including widowed, divorced, and single) 1 . 6 3 7    [ 0 . 3 5 4 ] 1 . 5 8 8    [ 0 . 3 5 3 ] 1.34   [ 0 . 3 5 5 ] 3 . 1 4 4    [ 1 . 5 6 9 ]
Literate (Illiterate)1.028   [ 0 . 1 6 4 ] 0.949   [ 0 . 1 5 6 ] 0.989   [ 0 . 2 2 2 ] 0.873   [ 0 . 2 2 6 ]
With pension (No pension)0.964   [ 0 . 1 1 8 ] 0.941   [ 0 . 1 1 8 ] 0.941   [ 0 . 1 5 3 ] 1.005   [ 0 . 2 6 7 ]
Health status
ADL independent (Impaired) 1 . 9 8 3    [ 0 . 2 7 8 ] 1.316   [ 0 . 3 3 8 ] 2 . 4 4 3    [ 0 . 4 2 4 ]
Normal cognition (impaired) 1 . 8 1 9    [ 0 . 2 5 2 ] 2 . 9 6 1    [ 0 . 7 4 4 ] 1 . 4 1 8    [ 0 . 2 4 6 ]
Whether the province dummy is controlled forYesYesYesYesYes
Whether the year dummy is controlled forYesYesYesYesYes
Observation1,5281,5281,528585943

Notes: the same as in Table 4.