Worldview commitment and narrative foreclosure among older Dutch adults: Assessing the importance of grand narratives

Figures & data

Table 1. Sample characteristics; where possible compared with the Dutch population of 75 years and older.

	sample			Dutch 75+ population
variable	mean (SD) or category	N	%	N	%
gender	male	227	63.8	532,798	40.7
	female	129	36.2	776,295^2	59.3
age^3	75–79	301	85.3	560,345	42.8
	80+	52	14.7	748,748	57.2
civil state	single	15	4.2	66,281	5.1
	married/registered partnership	228	64.4	623,516	47.6
	widowed	83	23.4	526,913	40.3
	divorced	28	7.9	92,383	7.1
country of birth	Netherlands	344	97.7	1,147,800	87.7
	other country	8	2.3	161,293	12.3
education level	lower	171	48.3	712,000	59.1
	intermediary	90	25.4	334,000	27.7
	higher	93	26.3	159,000^4	13.2
church membership	None	136	38.9		29
	Roman Catholic	127	36.3		37
	Protestant	85	24.3		30
	other	2	.6		5^5
church attendance^6	weekly or more often	56	16.0		20
	several times a month	38	10.9		6
	monthly	10	2.9		5
	several times a year	49	14.0		7
	seldom/never	197	56.3		61
living situation	community-dwelling	336	97.1
	institutionalized	10	2.9	110,159^7	8.4
Commitment	3.49 (.81)	347
Exploration	2.59 (.76)	346
Reconsideration	1.81 (.63)	343
NF-Past	2.16 (.76)	338
NF-Future	2.23 (.70)	337
General self-efficacy	3.31 (.48)	339
Well-being (ICECAP-O)	.87 (.12)	345

Table 2. Linear regression analyses for NF-Past (B and β) with 95% BCa confidence intervals of B based on 2,000 bootstrap samples reported in parentheses.

	Model 1 (R^2 = .123) (R^2 adj. = .114)		Model 2 (R^2 = .205) (R^2 adj. = .192)		Model 3 (R^2 = .230) (R^2 adj. = .194)
NF-Past (N = 312)	B	β	B	β	B	β
Commitment	−.23***	−.24***	−.14*	−.14*	−.15*	−.16*
	(-.35,-.10)		(-.26,-.01)		(-.28,-.02)
Exploration	.14*	.14*	.09	.09	.08	.08
	(.01,.28)		(-.02,.22)		(-.06,.22)
Reconsideration	.29***	.24***	.28***	.23***	.25**	.21***
	(.13,.42)		(.12,.41)		(.09,.39)
General self-efficacy			−.29**	−.19**	−.26**	−.17**
			(-.45,-.13)		(-.43,-.11)
Well-being (ICECAP-O)			−1.09**	−.17**	−1.03**	−.16**
			(−1.86,-.37)		(−1.85,-.27)
Gender (ref = male)					.05	.03
					(-.15,.24)
Age (ref = 75–79)					−.09	−.04
					(-.34,.15)
Education level					−.02	−.06
					(–.04,.02)
Civil state (ref = married)
Widowed					–.03	–.01
					(–.25,.22)
Unmarried					–.02	–.01
					(–.42,.38)
Divorced					.28*	.11
					(.01,.57)
Religious affiliation (ref. = Catholic)
Protestant					–.09	–.05
					(–.28,.11)
Unaffiliated					–.01	.00
					(–.22,.20)
Church attendance					.03	.09
					(–.02,.09)

*p < 0.050; **p < 0.010; ***p < 0.001.

Table 3. Linear regression analyses for NF-Future (B and β) with 95% BCa confidence intervals of B based on 2,000 bootstrap samples reported in parentheses.

	Model 1 (R^2 = .077) (R^2 adj. = .068)		Model 2 (R^2 = .162) (R^2 adj. = .148)		Model 3 (R^2 = .245) (R^2 adj. = .209)
NF-Future (N = 312)	B	β	B	β	B	β
Commitment	−.21**	−.24***	−.13	−.15*	−.14	−.16**
	(-.35,-.07)		(-.28,.02)		(-.28,.01)
Exploration	.00	.00	−.05	−.06	−.08	−.09
	(–.13,.12)		(–.17,.06)		(–.22,.07)
Reconsideration	.13*	.12*	.13*	.12*	.13*	.12*
	(.01,.26)		(.02,.26)		(.01,.26)
General self-efficacy			−.18*	−.13*	−.17	−.12*
			(–.36,-.03)		(–.35,-.01)
Well-being (ICECAP-O)			−1.31**	−.23***	−1.26**	−.22***
			(−2.19,-.35)		(−2.15,-.24)
Gender (ref = male)					−.04	−.03
					(–.20,.11)
Age (ref = 75–79)					.49***	.24***
					(.26,.69)
Education level					−.03	−.11
					(–.05,.00)
Civil state (ref = married)
Widowed					.02	.01
					(−16,.20)
Unmarried					.06	.02
					(–.31,.41)
Divorced					.05
					(–.18,.30)	.02
Religious affiliation (ref. = Catholic)
Protestant					–.15	–.09
					(–.33,.05)
Unaffiliated					.04	.03
					(–.16,.25)
Church attendance					.03	.10
					(–.02,.08)

*p < 0.050; **p < 0.010; ***p < 0.001.