Psychosocial working conditions across working life may predict late-life physical function: a follow-up cohort study

Table 2 Descriptive statistics at baseline: psychosocial working conditions

	Analytic sample n (%)	Mean late-life physical function (range 0–3)
All		2.3
Active jobs in 1991^a	300 (37.4)	2.5
Trajectories Low/0	279 (34.7)	2.4
Low/+	75 (9.3)	2.5
High/−	35 (4.4)	2.3
High/0	202 (25.2)	1.8
High/+	212 (26.4)	2.5
High strain jobs 1991^b	82 (10.2)	2.0
Trajectories Low/0	397 (49.4)	2.4
Low/+	11 (1.4)	1.8
High/−	106 (13.2)	1.9
High/0	243 (30.3)	1.9
High/+	46 (5.7)	1.8

Low/0 = low starting point and stable slope, Low/+ = low starting point and upward slope, High/− = high starting point and downward slope, High/0 = high starting point and stable slope, High/+ = high starting point and upward slope
^aBased on a dichotomized active job variable in which all people with a value > 0 in the active job variable were grouped together. High strain jobs, low strain jobs, and passive jobs are non-active jobs. ^bBased on a dichotomized high strain variable

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