Research Article
Do Stress Trajectories Predict Mortality in Older Men? Longitudinal Findings from the VA Normative Aging Study
Table 2
Latent class growth analysis results for stressful life events including health items.
| Classes | Parameter | Estimate | Error | Parameter = 0 | Prob |
| 1 | Intercept | 0.21144 | 0.05578 | 3.79 | .00 | Linear | −0.03782 | 0.00476 | −7.941 | .001 |
| 2 | Intercept | 0.98264 | 0.03549 | 27.691 | .001 | Linear | −0.02215 | 0.00221 | −10.024 | .001 |
| 3 | Intercept | 1.69093 | 0.02611 | 64.765 | .001 | Linear | −0.02336 | 0.00202 | −11.563 | .001 |
| 4 | Intercept | 0.4921 | 0.31959 | 1.54 | 0.1237 | Linear | 0.36437 | 0.06986 | 5.216 | .001 | Quadratic | −0.01735 | 0.00331 | −5.248 | .001 |
| | Alpha0 | −1.80433 | 0.05954 | −30.302 | .001 | | Alpha1 | 0.02563 | 0.00558 | 4.598 | .001 |
| Group membership | | | | | |
| 1 | (%) | 28.53623 | 3.29379 | 8.664 | .001 | 2 | (%) | 52.28231 | 2.93452 | 17.816 | .001 | 3 | (%) | 18.15619 | 1.80972 | 10.033 | .001 | 4 | (%) | 1.02527 | 0.37458 | 2.737 | .001 |
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