Table 3.

Actor-Partner effects of depressed mood on later depressed mood in caregiver-care recipient dyads across major condition types (n=742 dyads)

	Full Sample			Cancera			Dementia			Stroke			Diabetesa,b
	Beta	ES	SE	Beta	ES	SE	Beta	ES	SE	Beta	ES	SE	Beta	ES	SE
Actor Effects
Care recipient	0.43	0.26	0.04 ***	0.45	0.28	0.09 ***	0.47	0.25	0.09 ***	0.45	0.29	0.11 ***	0.44	0.24	0.06 ***
Caregiver	0.44	0.32	0.04 ***	0.40	0.26	0.08 ***	0.46	0.29	0.09 ***	0.32	0.21	0.11 **	0.47	0.33	0.05 ***
Partner effects
Caregiver-to-care recipient	0.09	0.05	0.04 *	0.20	0.12	0.09 *	0.22	0.12	0.11 *	0.02	0.02	0.11	0.16	0.09	0.07 *
Care recipient-to-caregiver	0.07	0.05	0.03 *	0.23	0.15	0.08 **	0.00	0.00	0.07	0.08	0.05	0.11	−0.02	−0.02	0.05

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

^***p<0.001

^aPartner effect (care recipient to caregiver) significantly different from dyads without the condition (p<.05);

^bPartner effects (caregiver to care

recipient) approaching statistically significant difference from dyads without the condition (p<.10)

ES: Effect size; SE: Standard error

Longitudinal data from the National Health and Aging Trends Survey and National Study of Caregiving (2015 and 2017).

Models control for: age, gender, race/ethnicity, marital status, education, employment status, poverty status, relationship to and coresidence with the care recipient, care recipient’s household size, hours of care per week, years of care, presences of care recipient activity limitations, care recipient health condition(s), care tasks, and total number of helpers.