Which of the Following Was Not a Good Predictor of Physical

question 5

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not a good predictor of physical health in this example? In their study of 'Using individual growth model to analyse the change in quality of life from adolescence to adulthood' (2006) , Chen and Cohen conducted interviews on 3 different occasions over a period of time and the following graph demonstrates the physical health changes noted over these 3 periods in 20 of their sample.
Individual Physical Health Change (raw data, n = 20)
Chen and Cohen Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4:10 doi:10.1186/1477-7525-4-10
The following results are obtained from fitting the unconditional linear growth model.
Table 1

• A) Age
• B) Gender
• C) Psychiatric disorder
• D) None of the above

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