Personal values in adolescence and their associations with metabolic biomarkers in adulthood: a Japanese population-based study

Table 3 Coefficient β and p-value for z-score as a proxy of MetS with the sum of outcome in relation to the personal value variables of Japanese adolescents

		Z-score^b
		MEN				WOMEN
		Crude (N = 261)		Adjusted (N = 261)^a		Crude (N = 407)		Adjusted (N = 407)^a
No	Items	β	p	β	p	β	p	β	p
V1	Not bothering others	-0.036	0.652	-0.026	0.749	0.005	0.926	-0.067	0.253
V2	Being highly evaluated by others	-0.121	0.092	-0.151	0.033^*	-0.008	0.882	0.013	0.815
V3	Having and keeping a belief	-0.061	0.435	-0.060	0.438	0.053	0.392	0.039	0.530
V4	Economically succeeding	0.164	0.042^*	0.162	0.042^*	0.082	0.194	0.082	0.185
V5	Improving society	-0.011	0.894	0.013	0.873	-0.095	0.159	-0.086	0.194
V6	Exploring what you were interested in	0.057	0.451	0.078	0.301	0.040	0.522	0.063	0.302
V7	Having influence on society	-0.018	0.826	-0.041	0.606	0.100	0.112	0.058	0.346
V8	Actively challenging	-0.029	0.713	-0.031	0.690	-0.074	0.254	-0.030	0.636
V9	Cherishing familiar people	-0.032	0.682	-0.037	0.633	-0.009	0.873	-0.006	0.907
V10	Graduating from a famous school	-0.010	0.891	-0.060	0.470	-0.132	0.029^*	-0.066	0.291
V11	Maintaining a stable life	0.029	0.728	0.049	0.546	0.043	0.499	0.035	0.569
	Commitment to Values(PVQ-II^z)	0.060	0.400	0.061	0.385	-0.028	0.617	-0.010	0.855
	R²	0.048	-	0.135	0.413	0.031	-	0.119	0.393
	ΔR²	-	-	0.087	0.010^*	-	-	0.088	< 0.001^*

^* p-value < 0.05
^z PVQ-II Personal Values Questionnaire II
^a Models were adjusted by age, educational status, marital status, working status, and household income
^bThe standardized score for the proxy of Mets (Z-score) was calculated by summing the standardized scores of each Mets-related marker. A high score indicates high-risk metabolic conditions

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