Self-Rated Health Trajectories among Married Americans: Do Disparities Persist over 20 Years?

Table 4

Models 3–5: self-rated health trajectories by gender, race, and education.

	Model 3			Model 4			Model 5
	b	SE	value	b	SE	value	b	SE	value
Initial SRH (intercept)	2.410	0.025	<0.001	2.389	0.017	<0.001	2.462	0.020	<0.001
× initial age	−0.012	0.002	<0.001	−0.012	0.002	<0.001	−0.010	0.002	<0.001
Women (men = reference group)	−0.085	0.033	0.009	—	—	—	—	—	—
Nonwhite (white = reference group)	—	—	—	−0.266	0.050	<0.001	—	—	—
Less than HS (any college = reference group)	—	—	—	—	—	—	−0.440	0.065	<0.001
High school	—	—	—	—	—	—	−0.168	0.034	<0.001
SRH trajectory (time slope)	−0.083	0.008	<0.001	−0.064	0.005	<0.001	−0.062	0.006	<0.001
× initial age	−0.001	0.001	0.064	−0.001	0.001	0.041	−0.001	0.001	0.020
Women (men = reference group)	0.037	0.010	<0.001	—	—	—	—	—	—
Nonwhite (white = reference group)	—	—	—	0.022	0.020	0.289	—	—	—
Less than HS (any college = reference group)	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.021	0.024	0.392
High school	—	—	—	—	—	—	−0.007	0.010	0.496
Random effects	SD	VC	value	SD	VC	value	SD	VC	value
Initial SRH intercept, u0	0.546	0.298	<0.001	0.541	0.293	<0.001	0.532	0.282	<0.001
SRH trajectory slope, u1	0.106	0.011	<0.001	0.108	0.012	<0.001	0.108	0.012	<0.001
Level 1, r	0.508	0.258	—	0.508	0.258	—	0.508	0.258	—

Note. SRH = self-rated health; VC = variance component; SD = standard deviation; Level 2 MIOLC N = 1,785.