Why Being Physically Active or Inactive Affects Older Women’s Physical Role?

Table 1

Results of the multiple stepwise regression analysis for physical role with inactive/active, physical function, bodily pain, general health (SF-36), and passive strategies of VPMI.

	Step	Variable					Corrected	Change in
Physical role	1	Bodily pain	.846	.538	.538	.289	.287	.289
	2	Physical function	.561	.330	.614	.377	.372	.088
	3	General health	-.377	-.162	.627	.393	.386	.016

Note:; , unstandardized coefficient; , standardized coefficient; regression coefficients were significant at , , and .