Table 4.

Actor-Partner effects of depressed mood on later depressed mood in caregiver-care recipient dyads across relationship types (n=743 dyads)

	Full Sample			Spouse/partner			Child			Other relative			Friend or other non-relative (n=113 dyads)
	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 ***	0.47	0.29	0.06 ***	0.42	0.26	0.05 ***	0.38	0.24	0.12 **	0.35	0.24	0.13 *
Caregiver	0.44	0.32	0.04 ***	0.49	0.34	0.06 ***	0.39	0.28	0.05 ***	0.40	0.32	0.11***	0.63	0.48	0.11***
Partner effects
Caregiver-to-care recipient	0.09	0.05	0.04 *	0.14	0.09	0.07 *	0.03	0.02	0.06	0.11	0.07	0.14	0.22	0.15	0.15
Care recipient-to-caregiver	0.07	0.05	0.03 *	0.01	0.01	0.06	0.10	0.07	0.04 *	0.08	0.07	0.09	0.15	0.11	0.10

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

^***p<0.001; actor and partner effects were not statistically different across relationship categories

ES: Effect size; SE: Standard error; CG: Caregiver; CR: Care recipient

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 caregivers.