Table 2 Random effects meta-analysis of regression of purpose and meaning on childhood correlates

From: Identifying childhood correlates of adult purpose and meaning across 22 countries (Global Flourishing Study)

						Estimated proportion of effects by threshold
Variable	Category	Est	95% CI	SE	<−0.10	>0.10	Heterogeneity (τ)	I²	Global p-value
Relationship with mother	(Ref: Very bad/somewhat bad)								<0.001**
Relationship with mother	Very/somewhat good	0.18	(0.10, 0.27)	0.04	0.00	0.77	0.13	48.7
Relationship with father	(Ref: Very bad/somewhat bad)								<0.001**
Relationship with father	Very/somewhat good	0.15	(0.07, 0.23)	0.04	0.09	0.64	0.14	65.2
Parent marital status	(Ref: Parents married)								<0.001**
	No, divorced	−0.06	(−0.19, 0.06)	0.06	0.41	0.23	0.25	82.0
	Single, never married	−0.08	(−0.21, 0.05)	0.07	0.36	0.23	0.25	79.6
	No, one or both had died	−0.10	(−0.20, −0.01)	0.05	0.50	0.05	0.15	47.1
Subjective financial status of the family growing up	(Ref: Got by)								<0.001**
	Lived comfortably	0.17	(0.09, 0.24)	0.04	0.05	0.68	0.16	85.0
	Found it difficult	−0.05	(−0.10, 0.01)	0.03	0.32	0.09	0.09	53.7
	Found it very difficult	−0.14	(−0.26, −0.01)	0.06	0.50	0.18	0.23	69.6
Abuse	(Ref: No)								<0.001**
Abuse	Yes	−0.31	(−0.39, −0.23)	0.04	0.86	0.00	0.15	71.4
Outsider growing up	(Ref: No)								<0.001**
Outsider growing up	Yes	−0.29	(−0.38, −0.20)	0.05	0.82	0.00	0.19	77.4
Self-rated health growing up	(Ref: Good)								<0.001**
	Excellent	0.48	(0.31, 0.64)	0.08	0.00	0.86	0.38	95.2
	Very good	0.24	(0.14, 0.33)	0.05	0.00	0.64	0.20	86.9
	Fair	−0.20	(−0.30, −0.10)	0.05	0.68	0.05	0.19	73.8
	Poor	−0.18	(-0.38, 0.03)	0.11	0.59	0.23	0.41	75.6
Immigration status	(Ref: Born in this country)								<0.001**
Immigration status	No	0.04	(−0.11, 0.19)	0.08	0.32	0.41	0.28	75.8
Age 12 religious service attendance	(Ref: Never)								<0.001**
	At least 1/week	0.38	(0.28, 0.49)	0.05	0.00	0.95	0.20	75.0
	1–3/month	0.26	(0.16, 0.37)	0.06	0.00	0.82	0.22	77.8
	Less than 1/month	0.12	(0.05, 0.19)	0.04	0.00	0.55	0.11	57.8
Year of birth	(Ref: 1998–2005; age 18–24)								<0.001**
	1993–1998; age 25–29	0.06	(−0.02, 0.13)	0.04	0.14	0.36	0.14	60.2
	1983–1993; age 30–39	0.17	(0.06, 0.29)	0.06	0.09	0.55	0.26	87.6
	1973–1983; age 40–49	0.22	(0.05, 0.38)	0.08	0.18	0.68	0.38	92.8
	1963–1973; age 50–59	0.28	(0.07, 0.49)	0.11	0.14	0.59	0.48	94.6
	1953–1963; age 60–69	0.36	(0.13, 0.60)	0.12	0.18	0.77	0.54	94.5
	1943–1953; age 70–79	0.41	(0.07, 0.74)	0.17	0.32	0.64	0.76	95.6
	1943 or earlier; age 80+	0.44	(0.09, 0.79)	0.18	0.27	0.55	0.74	89.2
Gender	(Ref: Male)								<0.001**
	Female	0.10	(0.04, 0.16)	0.03	0.05	0.45	0.14	85.7
	Other	−0.50	(−0.85, −0.14)	0.18	0.83	0.17	0.62	78.0

Note. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.004 (Bonferroni corrected threshold).

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