Research Article
The Effects of Sociodemographic Characteristics on Chinese Elders' Perception of the Image of Ageing
Table 7
Logistic regression estimates for the effects of Sociodemographic variables with positivity of the ageing image as the dependent variables.
| | Negative image of ageing | | Independent variables | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | | Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) | Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI) |
| | Illness (severe) | | | | | | No illness | 0.165 (0.093–0.295) | 0.158 (0.087–0.286) | 0.169 (0.093–0.308) | 0.163 (0.088–0.299) | | Moderate | 0.344 (0.194–0.610) | 0.326 (0.181–0.586) | 0.354 (0.196–0.640) | 0.351 (0.193–0.636) |
| | Daily activity | | | | | | Inactive | | 3.577 (1.799–7.114) | 3.715 (1.851–7.455) | 3.573 (1.747–7.309) | | Moderate | | 2.329 (1.486–3.650) | 2.448 (1.550–3.866) | 2.420 (1.519–3.855) |
| | Urban-rural residence (rural) | | | | | | Urban | | | 1.868 (1.209–2.887) | 2.128 (1.357–3.337) |
| | Marital status (married) | | | | | | Single | | | | 5.737 (1.956–16.831) | | Widowed | | | | 1.310 NS (0.795–2.160) |
| | Working status (doing other things) | | | | | | Retired or no longer working | | | | NS | | Still employed | | | | NS |
| | Living arrangement (with more than one generation) | | | | | | Elderly home | | | | NS | | Alone | | | | NS | | Only with spouse | | | | NS |
| | Neighbourhood relationship (good) | | | | | | Bad | | | | NS | | Normal | | | | NS |
| | Omnibus tests of model coefficient | 43.418 | 63.266 | 71.930 | 83.868 | | Hosmer and Lemeshow test () | 0.000 () | 0.715 () | 1.944 () | 7.571 () | | −2 Log likelihood | 550.134 | 530.286 | 522.309 | 509.400 | | Cox & Snell | 0.094 | 0.134 | 0.150 | 0.174 | | Nagelkerke | 0.127 | 0.181 | 0.202 | 0.235 |
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