Meaning in life among nursing students: a latent profile analysis

Zhao, Zhixin; Mei, Yongxia; Wang, Xiaoxuan; Jiang, Hu; Wang, Wenna; Lin, Beilei; Zhang, Zhenxiang

doi:10.1186/s12912-023-01425-3

BMC Nursing

Table 5 Multivariate Logistic regressions for predicting in four profile latent classes among the participants

From: Meaning in life among nursing students: a latent profile analysis

Variables	Class 1 VS Class 4			Class 2 VS Class 4			Class 3 VS Class 4
Variables	β	OR	95%CI	β	OR	95%CI	β	OR	95%CI
Age	-0.058	0.944**	0.906–0.983	-0.039	0.961	0.907–1.020	-0.029	0.971	0.910–1.036
Gender
Male	0.059	1.061	0.918–1.226	0.242	1.273*	1.043–1.555	0.362	1.437**	1.151–1.794
Female (refer)
Ethnicity
Han	0.362	1.437**	1.159–1.782	-0.055	0.946	0.711–1.260	0.044	1.045	0.750–1.456
Ethnic Minority (refer)
Marital status
Unmarried	0.035	1.035	0.602–1.780	-0.412	0.662	0.324–1.355	-0.748	0.473	0.211–1.062
Married (refer)
Family residence
Rural	-0.040	0.961	0.853–1.083	-0.119	0.888	0.746–1.058	0.107	1.113	0.901–1.374
Urban (refer)
Education Level
Junior college	-1.091	0.336	0.027–4.203	-2.892	0.055*	0.006–0.536	-1.734	0.177	0.009–3.576
Bachelor’s	-0.995	0.370	0.030–4.603	-3.038	0.048**	0.005–0.461	-2.430	0.088	0.004–1.764
Master’s	-1.108	0.393	0.026–4.189	-3.063	0.047*	0.005–0.473	-2.606	0.074	0.003–1.576
Doctor’s (refer)
Grade
Freshman	-0.047	0.954	0.778–1.170	-0.171	0.842	0.637–1.114	-0.274	0.761	0.555–1.043
Sophomore	0.134	1.144	0.929–1.408	-0.179	0.837	0.628–1.115	-0.008	0.992	0.721–1.364
Junior	0.141	1.151	0.892–1.487	-0.252	0.778	0.533–1.133	-0.058	0.943	0.629–1.416
Senior	0.090	1.095	0.730–1.641	0.174	1.190	0.666–2.123	-0.026	0.974	0.493–1.925
Fifth grade and above (refer)
University classification
Associate college	-0.172	0.842	0.538–1.318	0.067	1.070	0.532–2.152	-0.292	0.747	0.329–1.694
General Undergraduate	-0.209	0.812	0.575–1.145	-0.259	0.772	0.445–1.338	0.295	1.343	0.650–2.778
Double-class institutions (refer)
Political affiliation
Communist Party member	-0.432	0.649	0.280–1.506	0.475	1.608	0.338–7.660	-0.056	0.946	0.286–3.129
Communist Youth League Member	-0.379	0.685	0.311–1.507	0.444	1.559	0.349–6.969	-0.129	0.879	0.297–2.599
General public	-0.295	0.744	0.338–1.640	0.434	1.544	0.345–6.905	-0.032	0.969	0.327–2.868
Others (refer)
Student leadership experience
Yes	-0.166	0.847**	0.761–0.943	0.132	1.141	0.977–1.332	0.174	1.190	0.996–1.421
No (refer)

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01; OR, Odds ratio; 95% CI, 95% Confidence Interval

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