Table 6

Psychosocial factors: associations with levels and changes of disability

		Repeated prevalence model^6-150			Longitudinal change model^6-151
		Coefficient	Standard error		Overall p value	Coefficient	Standard error	Overall p value
			<0.001			0.464
Longlasting difficulties (0–12)^6-152	0.238	0.054		0.005	0.007
			<0.001			0.319
Coping: confronting (8–32)^6-152	−0.097	0.022		0.004	0.004
			<0.001			0.842
Coping: depressive (7–24)^6-152	0.154	0.039		0.001	0.005
			0.048			0.663
Coping: avoiding (7–26)^6-152	0.064	0.032		0.002	0.005
			0.156			0.533
Coping: social support seeking (6–24)^6-152	−0.040	0.028		−0.003	0.004
			0.478			0.864
Coping: palliative (6–22)^6-152	−0.025	0.035		0.001	0.005
			0.311			0.747
Coping: emotions (3–12)^6-152	−0.052	0.051		0.003	0.009
			0.239			0.839
Coping: optimistic (4–16)^6-152	−0.046	0.039		−0.002	0.007
			<0.001			0.436
Social support: emotional (0–30)^6-152	−0.064	0.018		−0.002	0.002
			0.018			0.982
Social support: instrumental (0–24)^6-152	−0.057	0.024		−0.000	0.003
			<0.001			0.318
Neuroticism (0–12)^6-152	0.133	0.035		−0.004	0.004
			<0.001			0.165
Locus of control (12–55)^6-152	0.054	0.014		0.003	0.002

↵6-150 Adjusted for age, gender and (other) chronic disease by severity category in 1991, and year of measurement (1991–1997).
↵6-151 Adjusted for age, gender and (other) chronic disease by severity category in 1991, year of measurement (1991–1997), and the interaction between the determinant of interest and age.
↵6-152 Scale length.