Do Stress Trajectories Predict Mortality in Older Men? Longitudinal Findings from the VA Normative Aging Study

Table 4

Latent class growth analysis results for stressful life events including health items.

Classes	Parameter	Estimate	Error	Parameter = 0	Prob >|T|
1	Intercept	−0.01395	0.06973	−0.2	0.8415
	Linear	−0.04067	0.0054	−7.539	.001
2	Intercept	0.838	0.04367	19.187	.001
	Linear	−0.02431	0.0026	−9.335	.001
3	Intercept	1.61165	0.03105	51.905	.001
	Linear	−0.0199	0.00238	−8.363	.001
	Alpha0	−1.52872	0.05863	−26.075	.001
	Alpha1	0.03221	0.00565	5.706	.001
Group membership
1	(%)	31.61516	3.98985	7.924	.001
2	(%)	53.83532	3.46901	15.519	.001
3	(%)	14.54953	1.66608	8.733	.001