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 >|T|
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