Biological and other health related correlates of long-term life dissatisfaction burden

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Socio-demographic factors and health behavior as correlates of long-term life dissatisfaction burden ¹⁾ in linear regression models

Variables	Bivariate model²⁾B (95% CI)¹⁾	p-value²⁾	Multivariate model 1³⁾B (95% CI)²⁾	p-value³⁾
Age	−0.002 (−0.004–0.000)	0.014	−0.001 (−0.002 – 0.001 )	ns
Gender (male)	0.018 (−0.016–0.051)	ns	0.022 (−0.007 – 0.051)	ns
Marital status _{(living alone)}	0.077 (0.031–0.124)	0.001	0.055 (0.014–0.096)	0.009
Social support (poor)	0.179 (0.133–0.225)	<0.001	0.144 (0.099–0.188)	<0.001
Sleep (poor)	0.081 (0.049–0.114)	<0.001	0.051 (0.021–0.080)	0.001
Smoking (yes)	0.111 (0.070–0.152)	<0.001	0.098 (0.060–0.136)	<0.001
Alcohol consumption ≥2/week	0.022 (−0.021–0.065)	ns	Nim	Nim

¹⁾Long-term life dissatisfaction burden score (logLSburden): sum of life satisfaction scores in 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005 with logarithmic transformation.
²⁾Bivariate linear regression analysis separately for each variable.
³⁾Multiple adjusted linear regression model 1 (method: enter) included the following factors: age (continuous), gender (0 = female, 1 = male), marital status (0 = married/living in a partnership, 1 = living alone), social support (0 = good/normal, 1 = poor), sleep (0 = good, 1 = poor), and smoking (0 = no, 1 = yes).
Nim = not included in the model due to nonsignificant association in the bivariate model.

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