Leisure Engagement: Medical Conditions, Mobility Difficulties, and Activity Limitations—A Later Life Perspective

Table 3

The effects of medical conditions, mobility difficulties, and activity limitations on the leisure engagement of older adults. Results from bivariate and multivariate OLS analyses.

Independent variables	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Health-related risk factors
Medical conditions (index)	−0.134^***	−0.052^***	−0.036^*
Mobility difficulties (index)	−0.273^***	−0.115^***	−0.079^***
Activity limitations (index)	−0.504^***	−0.196^***	−0.168^***
Sociodemographic variables
Age (cont.)			−0.104^***
Language: Swedish (ref. Finnish and others)			0.068^***
Gender: female (ref. male)			0.056^***
Civil status: partnership (ref. single)			0.052^***
Income: high (ref. low)			0.062^***
Education: high (ref. low education)			0.083^***
Country: Sweden (ref. Finland)			−0.015
		5435	5435
Adjusted square		0.071	0.101

Note: the first model shows nonstandardised Beta coefficients from bivariate regressions of each health indicator of leisure engagement, whereas models 2 and 3 show standardised Beta coefficients from multivariate regressions. The variables, medical conditions, mobility difficulties, and activity limitations, are indexes. Age is a continuous variable and the other variables are “dummy” variables. ^*P < 0.95 and ^***P < 0.999.