What doesn’t kill you makes you feel older: lifespan adversity and its association with subjective age among former prisoners of war

Figures & data

Table 1. Hierarchical regression to predict subjective age in T4 among ex-POWs.

	b	se	β	t	p	Δ R^2	Δ F	Δ P
Step 1
Childhood life events	−.29	.86	−.03	−.33	.74	.00	.11	.74
Step 2
Childhood life events	−.25	.86	−.03	−.29	.77
Participation in other wars	−.37	.85	−.04	−.44	.66	.00	.19	.66
Step 3
Childhood life events	−.25	.86	−.03	−.29	.77
Participation in other wars	−.04	.90	−.00	−.04	.97
Combat exposure	−1.43	1.23	−.12	−1.15	.25	.01	1.33	.25
Step 4
Childhood life events	.89	.84	.10	1.06	.29
Participation in other wars	−.89	1.14	−.10	−.78	.43
Combat exposure	−.92	1.32	−.08	−.70	.48
Weight loss in captivity	.56	1.99	.04	.28	.78
Physical suffering in captivity	.44	1.18	.05	.38	.71
Psychological suffering in captivity	.97	1.62	.09	.60	.55
Humiliation in captivity	4.16**	1.75	.36**	2.38	.01	.20	6.18***	.000
Step 5
Childhood life events	1.29	.79	.15	1.63	.10
Participation in other wars	−1.89	1.09	−.22	−1.72	.09
Combat exposure	.22	1.27	.02	.17	.86
Weight loss in captivity	1.19	1.87	.08	.63	.53
Physical suffering in captivity	.59	1.10	.07	.53	.59
Psychological suffering in captivity	2.61	1.57	.25	1.66	.09
Humiliation in captivity	4.08**	1.64	.35**	2.49	.01
Life events since the war	3.53***	.92	.37***	3.88	.000	.11	14.77***	.000
Step 6
Childhood life events	2.20***	.67	.25***	3.29	.001
Participation in other wars	−.94	.94	−.11	−.99	.32
Combat exposure	−.27	1.09	−.02	−.25	.80
Weight loss in captivity	1.72	1.57	.12	1.09	.27
Physical suffering in captivity	1.69^	.93	.20^	1.83	.07
Psychological suffering in captivity	2.40^	1.32	.23^	1.81	.07
Humiliation in captivity	2.41^	1.40	.21	1.72	.07
Life events since the war	2.52**	.78	.26**	3.24	.002
Chronic vs. delayed PTSD	4.74***	.78	.46***	6.04	.000
Delayed and chronic PTSD vs. resilient	5.41***	1.17	.38***	4.61	.000	.22	22.78***	.000

Note: Δ F = F statistic of the change from previous step; Δ P = p value of the F change; ^ p = .069, *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001.