Research Article
Do Stress Trajectories Predict Mortality in Older Men? Longitudinal Findings from the VA Normative Aging Study
Table 4
Latent class growth analysis results for stressful life events including health items.
| Classes | Parameter | Estimate | Error | Parameter = 0 | Prob |
| 1 | Intercept | −0.01395 | 0.06973 | −0.2 | 0.8415 | Linear | −0.04067 | 0.0054 | −7.539 | .001 |
| 2 | Intercept | 0.838 | 0.04367 | 19.187 | .001 | Linear | −0.02431 | 0.0026 | −9.335 | .001 |
| 3 | Intercept | 1.61165 | 0.03105 | 51.905 | .001 | Linear | −0.0199 | 0.00238 | −8.363 | .001 |
| | Alpha0 | −1.52872 | 0.05863 | −26.075 | .001 | Alpha1 | 0.03221 | 0.00565 | 5.706 | .001 |
| Group membership | | | | | |
| 1 | (%) | 31.61516 | 3.98985 | 7.924 | .001 | 2 | (%) | 53.83532 | 3.46901 | 15.519 | .001 | 3 | (%) | 14.54953 | 1.66608 | 8.733 | .001 |
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