Longitudinal association between personality traits and homebound status in older adults: results from the National Health and Aging Trends Study

Table 2 Summary of ordinal logistic regression of personality traits predicting homebound status (3 years follow up)

Variables	Model 1 OR (95% CI)†	Effect size (f²)	Model 2 OR (95% CI)†	Effect size (f²)	Model 3 OR (95% CI)†	Effect size (f²)
Conscientiousness	0.65 (0.54, 0.80) ***	0.01	0.71 (0.57, 0.87) ***	0.09	0.73 (0.59, 0.91) **	0.13
Extraversion	0.81 (0.67, 0.97) *	0.01	0.84 (0.69, 1.02)	0.08	0.88 (0.72, 1.07)	0.12
Neuroticism	0.96 (0.81, 1.14)	0.01	0.94 (0.79, 1.12)	0.08	0.81 (0.67, 0.98) *	0.13
Openness	0.82 (0.69, 0.97) *	0.01	0.92 (0.77, 1.10)	0.08	0.88 (0.74, 1.06)	0.12
Agreeableness	0.90 (0.69, 1.17)	0.01	0.84 (0.64, 1,11)	0.08	0.85 (0.63, 1.12)	0.12

Note: Model 1: crude association
Model 2: Model 1 + demographic covariates (age, gender, race, education, living arrangement)
Model 3: Model 1 + demographic and health-related covariates (ADL difficulties, number of chronic illnesses, dementia, depression, anxiety, pain, and hospitalization)
^†OR Odds ratio, CI confidence interval; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001

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