Estimates of HRs (with 95% CIs) of life satisfaction risk factors based on age and sex-adjusted, and fully adjusted regression models, and the Wald test p values
| Deaths | Age and sex-adjusted regression model* | Multiple regression model† | |||
| Have you felt tensioned, stressed or under a lot of strain during the past month? | P=0.002 | ||||
| Yes, my life is almost unbearable | 104 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Yes, quite more so than people usually are | 521 | 0.60 | (0.47 to 0.76) | 0.82 | (0.64 to 1.06) |
| Yes, somewhat, but no more than what is usual | 2288 | 0.47 | (0.37 to 0.59) | 0.73 | (0.57 to 0.93) |
| Not at all | 1397 | 0.50 | (0.39 to 0.63) | 0.79 | (0.61 to 1.02) |
| How satisfied are you with your accomplishments in life? | P=0.004 | ||||
| Very satisfied | 282 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Satisfied | 1289 | 1.16 | (0.98 to 1.37) | 1.12 | (0.94 to 1.33) |
| Somewhat satisfied | 2325 | 1.49 | (1.27 to 1.75) | 1.21 | (1.02 to 1.43) |
| Unsatisfied | 414 | 2.41 | (1.98 to 2.93) | 1.32 | (1.06 to 1.64) |
| How often do you have to stretch your strength to the extreme in order to cope with your present work? | P=0.001 | ||||
| I do not work | 1603 | 0.96 | (0.74 to 1.24) | 1.13 | (0.86 to 1.48) |
| Almost all the time | 115 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Quite often | 376 | 0.75 | (0.56 to 1.00) | 0.92 | (0.68 to 1.24) |
| Sometimes | 780 | 0.74 | (0.57 to 0.97) | 0.99 | (0.75 to 1.31) |
| Seldom or never | 1436 | 0.70 | (0.54 to 0.91) | 0.96 | (0.73 to 1.26) |
| Is your financial status now better or worse than before? | P=0.001 | ||||
| Much better | 448 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Somewhat better | 1024 | 0.98 | (0.83 to 1.15) | 0.93 | (0.79 to 1.09) |
| About the same | 1875 | 1.20 | (1.04 to 1.39) | 1.09 | (0.94 to 1.26) |
| A bit worse | 654 | 1.37 | (1.16 to 1.62) | 1.12 | (0.94 to 1.33) |
| A lot worse | 309 | 1.87 | (1.55 to 2.25) | 1.14 | (0.93 to 1.39) |
| I feel it impossible to attain the goals that I’d like to attain. | P<0.001 | ||||
| Absolutely agree | 263 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Somewhat agree | 775 | 0.71 | (0.58 to 0.86) | 0.87 | (0.71 to 1.07) |
| Hard to say | 1981 | 0.69 | (0.58 to 0.83) | 0.85 | (0.70 to 1.03) |
| Somewhat disagree | 827 | 0.49 | (0.41 to 0.60) | 0.72 | (0.59 to 0.89) |
| Absolutely disagree | 465 | 0.46 | (0.37 to 0.57) | 0.74 | (0.59 to 0.94) |
| I feel that I do not have any good friends. | P=0.105 | ||||
| Disagree | 3432 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Agree or hard to say | 878 | 1.38 | (1.24 to 1.53) | 1.09 | (0.98 to 1.22) |
| Do you have trouble getting along with your spouse? | P<0.001 | ||||
| I do not have a spouse | 1276 | 1.60 | (1.26 to 2.03) | 1.35 | (1.06 to 1.73) |
| Quite often or more often | 138 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Sometimes or seldom | 2175 | 0.98 | (0.78 to 1.25) | 1.14 | (0.90 to 1.45) |
| Never | 721 | 1.02 | (0.79 to 1.31) | 1.21 | (0.94 to 1.56) |
| How often have your children caused you special trouble? | P=0.040 | ||||
| Often or I have no children | 1021 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Sometimes | 511 | 0.78 | (0.67 to 0.90) | 0.96 | (0.83 to 1.12) |
| Seldom | 1100 | 0.72 | (0.64 to 0.81) | 0.93 | (0.82 to 1.06) |
| Never | 1678 | 0.71 | (0.64 to 0.79) | 0.89 | (0.80 to 1.00) |
*Age and sex-adjusted model.
†All risk factors in table 1a, b and c, including also age, sex and the biological risk factors in figure 2, were entered in the model simultaneously.