Table 2 Random effects Meta-Analysis of regression of sense of mastery on childhood predictors.
Variable | Category | RR | 95% CI | Estimated proportion of effects by threshold | I^2 | Global p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
< 0.90 | > 1.10 | |||||||
Relationship with mother | (Ref: Very bad/somewhat bad) | 0.017* | ||||||
Very/somewhat good | 1.03 | (1.01,1.06) | 0.00 | 0.05 | 56.9 | |||
Relationship with father | (Ref: Very bad/somewhat bad) | 0.009* | ||||||
Very/somewhat good | 1.02 | (1.00,1.03) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 41.4 | |||
Parent marital status | (Ref: Parents married) | < 0.001** | ||||||
No, divorced | 0.99 | (0.97,1.01) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 29.5 | |||
Single, never married | 1.01 | (0.97,1.05) | 0.05 | 0.14 | 90.8 | |||
No, one or both had died | 0.98 | (0.94,1.01) | 0.14 | 0.05 | 72.4 | |||
Subjective financial status of family growing up | (Ref: Got by) | < 0.001** | ||||||
Lived comfortably | 1.03 | (1.01,1.05) | 0.00 | 0.05 | 81.3 | |||
Found it difficult | 0.98 | (0.97,0.99) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 19.4 | |||
Found it very difficult | 0.96 | (0.93,0.98) | 0.05 | 0.00 | 42.6 | |||
Abuse | (Ref: No) | < 0.001** | ||||||
Yes | 0.96 | (0.94,0.98) | 0.10 | 0.00 | 79.6 | |||
Outsider growing up | (Ref: No) | < 0.001** | ||||||
Yes | 0.95 | (0.93,0.97) | 0.09 | 0.00 | 63.4 | |||
Self-rated health growing up | (Ref: Good) | < 0.001** | ||||||
Excellent | 1.08 | (1.04,1.11) | 0.00 | 0.18 | 92.4 | |||
Very good | 1.04 | (1.02,1.06) | 0.00 | 0.09 | 77.1 | |||
Fair | 0.94 | (0.92,0.97) | 0.27 | 0.00 | 67.6 | |||
Poor | 0.93 | (0.89,0.97) | 0.23 | 0.00 | 46.5 | |||
Immigration status | (Ref: Born in this country) | < 0.001** | ||||||
No | 1.02 | (0.99,1.06) | 0.00 | 0.14 | 78.4 | |||
Age 12 religious service attendance | (Ref: Never) | < 0.001** | ||||||
At least 1x/week | 1.05 | (1.03,1.08) | 0.00 | 0.14 | 73.9 | |||
1-3x/month | 1.05 | (1.01,1.10) | 0.00 | 0.09 | 90.2 | |||
Less than 1x/month | 1.03 | (1.01,1.04) | 0.00 | 0.05 | 56.7 | |||
Year of birth | (Ref: 1998–2005; age 18–24) | < 0.001** | ||||||
1993–1998; age 25–29 | 1.01 | (0.99,1.03) | 0.00 | 0.05 | 63.8 | |||
1983–1993; age 30–39 | 1.03 | (1.00,1.07) | 0.00 | 0.23 | 89.0 | |||
1973–1983; age 40–49 | 1.03 | (0.98,1.07) | 0.14 | 0.23 | 92.2 | |||
1963–1973; age 50–59 | 1.04 | (0.99,1.09) | 0.18 | 0.27 | 93.6 | |||
1953–1963; age 60–69 | 1.04 | (0.99,1.10) | 0.09 | 0.36 | 92.1 | |||
1943–1953; age 70–79 | 1.05 | (0.99,1.12) | 0.14 | 0.32 | 90.2 | |||
1943 or earlier; age 80+ | 1.07 | (0.98,1.16) | 0.27 | 0.50 | 89.8 | |||
Gender | (Ref: Male) | < 0.001** | ||||||
Female | 0.98 | (0.97,0.99) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60.3 | |||
Other | 0.47 | (0.13,1.65) | 0.56 | 0.28 | 99.9 | |||
