Longitudinal Patterns of Stability and Change in Tenacious Goal Pursuit and Flexible Goal Adjustment among Older People over a 9-Year Period

Table 3

Longitudinal trajectories of TGP and FGA across the three waves.

			Intercept			Linear
	N	Estimate	SE	p	Estimate	SE	p
Flexible goal adjustment
Moderately high and stable	483	37.54	.71	<.001	.30	.19	.12
High and stable	41	48.84	1.00	<.001	.40	.30	.19
Moderate and increasing	170	32.63	.89	<.001	.62	.25	.01
Low and increasing	53	26.34	1.00	<.001	.75	.33	.02
Tenacious goal pursuit
Low and stable	295	23.93	2.10	<.001		.33	.48
High and decreasing	135	36.21	1.62	<.001		.27	.04
Moderate and stable	317	29.54	1.94	<.001		.31	.12