<p>TASK PERSISTENCE AND ATTAINMENT 1</p><p>Appendix</p><p>Supplemental Material for The Role of Task Persistence in Young Adolescence for</p><p>Successful Educational and Occupational Attainment in Middle Adulthood</p><p>This appendix provides tables for the multiple and ordinal regression analyses in which men and women were analyzed together including covariates of gender and an interaction term for gender and task persistence. TASK PERSISTENCE AND ATTAINMENT 2</p><p>Table 5. Summary of Regression Analysis of Variables at Age 13 </p><p>Predicting Income (Age 43/47). Interaction Term Included. ______</p><p>Income (Euro, N = 738) ______Variable B (SE)  ∆R² ______</p><p>Parents’ SES -8.77 (31.15) -0.01 .37*** </p><p>Intellectual ability -0.76 (2.10) -0.02</p><p>GPA (age 13) -45.68 (75.37) -0.03 </p><p>Educational aspirations 56.68 (42.08) 0.05 </p><p>School interest -20.76 (63.85) -0.01 </p><p>Task persistence 59.00 (32.04) 0.07</p><p>Gender -1111.70 (72.66) -0.46***</p><p>Gender xTask persistence -234.60 (47.49) -0.15*** </p><p>Educational attainment 153.33 (15.18) 0.35*** ______</p><p>Note. The gender and task persistence variables were centered. The centered gender variable had men coded in the negative category and women in the positive category.</p><p>*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001 TASK PERSISTENCE AND ATTAINMENT 3</p><p>Table 6. Summary of Regression Analysis for Variables at Age 13 Predicting </p><p>Educational Attainment in Middle Age (Age 43/47). Interaction Term Included. ______</p><p>Educational attainment (N = 961) ______Variable B SE  ∆R² ______Parents’ SES .38 .07 .18*** .30*</p><p>Intellectual ability .01 .01 .09*</p><p>GPA (age 13) .69 .16 .21*** </p><p>Educational aspirations .41 .09 .15***</p><p>School interest .26 .14 .05 </p><p>Task persistence .14 .07 .08*</p><p>Gender -.76 .15 -.14***</p><p>Gender x Task persistence .01 .10 .00 ______</p><p>Note. The gender and task persistence variables were centered. The centered gender variable had men coded in the negative category and women in the positive category.</p><p>*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001. TASK PERSISTENCE AND ATTAINMENT 4</p><p>Table 7. Summary of Ordinal Regression Analysis for Variables at </p><p>Age 13 Predicting Occupational Level (Age 43/47). Interaction Term Included. ______</p><p>Occupational level (N = 894) ______</p><p>Variable Par. Est. SE NR2 ______</p><p>Parents’ SES 0.01 0.04 0.49</p><p>Intellectual ability 0.00 0.00 </p><p>GPA (age 13) 0.10 0.11 </p><p>Educational aspirations 0.11 0.06 </p><p>School interest 0.01 0.10 </p><p>Task persistence -0.00 0.05 </p><p>Gender (men)a 0.16 0.10</p><p>Gender x Task persistence -0.17* 0.07 </p><p>Educational attainment 0.41*** 0.02 </p><p>Link function: negative log-log. ______</p><p>Notes. NR2 = Nagelkerke’s peudo R-square. </p><p>The gender and task persistence variables were centered. The centered gender variable had men coded in the negative category and women in the positive category. aThe regression coefficient for gender refers to the effect of belonging to the men category.</p><p>*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001</p>