Table 2 Modes of Social Contact Predicting Verbal Communication of Emotion

From: Mode of social contact is associated with momentary verbal communication of emotion and well-being in older adults

 

Positive Emotions a

Negative Emotions a

 

B

p

f2

95% CI

B

p

f2

95% CI

Fixed effects

 Intercept

-0.41

.591

–

[-1.89,1.07]

0.38

.019

–

[0.06, 0.70]

Social contact b

 In person (wp)

0.23

<.001

0.040

[0.18, 0.28]

0.02

.001

0.003

[0.01, 0.03]

 Phone (wp)

0.17

<.001

0.004

[0.10, 0.25]

0.01

.173

0.001

[-0.00, 0.04]

 In person (bp)

0.30

<.001

0.001

[0.15, 0.44]

0.04

.012

0.000

[0.01, 0.07]

 Phone (bp)

0.09

.337

0.000

[-0.09, 0.26]

0.03

.125

0.000

[-0.01, 0.07]

Covariates

 Morning (ref.)

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

 Afternoon (wp)

0.59

<.001

0.009

[0.41, 0.76]

0.10

<.001

0.003

[0.05, 0.14]

 Evening (wp)

0.45

<.001

0.004

[0.26, 0.63]

0.06

.022

0.001

[0.01, 0.11]

 Age

-0.01

.180

0.000

[-0.04, 0.01]

-0.01

.012

0.001

[-0.01, -0.00]

 Women

0.47

.003

0.001

[0.16, 0.78]

-0.01

.682

0.000

[-0.08, 0.05]

 Racial/ethnic minority

-0.08

.646

0.000

[-0.43, 0.27]

0.00

.982

0.000

[-0.08, 0.07]

 Married

0.04

.803

0.000

[-0.29, 0.38]

-0.06

.081

0.000

[-0.13, 0.01]

 High school or less (ref.)

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

 College

0.27

.252

0.000

[-0.19, 0.72]

0.01

.840

0.000

[-0.09, 0.11]

 College graduate and more

0.43

.062

0.000

[-0.02, 0.88]

-0.04

.420

0.000

[-0.14, 0.06]

 Health c

0.09

.202

0.000

[-0.05, 0.24]

0.01

.475

0.000

[-0.02, 0.04]

 Social network size d

-0.01

.346

0.000

[-0.03, 0.01]

-0.00

.393

0.000

[-0.01, 0.00]

Random effects

 Variances (intercept)

0.06

<.001

–

[0.04, 0.09]

0.00

<.001

–

[0.00, 0.00]

 Variances (in-person slope)

0.00

.932

–

[0.00, 0.00]

0.00

<.001

–

[0.00, 0.02]

 Variances (phone slope)

0.86

.190

–

[0.68, 1.08]

0.03

<.001

–

[0.02, 0.04]

 Variances (residual)

4.68

<.001

–

[4.48, 4.88]

0.37

<.001

–

[0.36, 0.39]

 -2 log likelihood

20812.83

8837.78

 Number of observations

4631

4631

  1. wp = within-person. bp = between-person. Between-person level effect of time-varying predictors were considered but omitted from the table. All continuous predictors centered on the grand mean. a Words usage indicating verbal communication of positive and negative emotions, generated by LIWC. b Number of different modes of social contact in the prior 3 h. c 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). d Number of social partners in the social convoy. n = 4,627 assessments.
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