Social cohesion and belonging predict the well-being of community-dwelling older people

BMC Geriatrics

Table 5 Predictors of well-being at T1 (2013), as assessed by multilevel random-intercepts regression analyses (n = 532)

	β	SE
Constant	2.54^***	.02
Well-being at T0	.33^***	.02
Age	-.02	.02
Gender (male)	.05^**	.02
Marital status (married)	.00	.02
Low educational level	-.05^**	.02
Born in the Netherlands	-.01	.02
Social cohesion at T0	.07^***	.02
Changes in social cohesion (T1 – T0)	.09^***	.02
Social belonging at T0	.05^*	.02
Changes in social belonging (T1 – T0)	.04^*	.02

Notes: These findings are based on data from respondents who filled in questionnaires at both T0 and T1 (n = 588). Listwise deletion of missing cases led to a final sample of 532 respondents.
SE, standard error; T0, 2011; T1, 2013.
^***p ≤ .001, ^**p ≤ .01, ^*p ≤ .05 (two-tailed).

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