Table 4.
The Effect of Psychological Aggression on Couples’ Relationship Satisfaction
| Women’s Satisfaction | Men’s Satisfaction | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictor | Estimate | SE | t(df) | p | Estimate | SE | t(df) | p |
| Men’s Topic | ||||||||
| Level 1 Effects | ||||||||
| 1. Women’s psych. aggression | −21.65 | 8.46 | −2.56 (734) | .01 | −16.31 | 8.49 | −1.92 (734) | .06 |
| 2. Men’s psych. aggression | −1.05 | 6.52 | −0.16 (734) | .87 | −0.03 | 6.56 | −0.00 (734) | 1.0 |
| Level 2 Effects (Psychological aggression as predictor averaged across four time points) | ||||||||
| 3. Intercept (sample average T4) | 51.31 | 1.21 | 42.25 (43) | .00 | 50.18 | 1.02 | 49.09 (43) | .00 |
| 4. Women’s psych. aggression | −128.00 | 61.07 | −2.10 (43) | .04 | −101.51 | 51.49 | −1.97 (43) | .06 |
| 5. Men’s psych. aggression | −48.23 | 52.05 | −0.93 (43) | .36 | −47.51 | 43.83 | −1.08 (43) | .28 |
| 6. Slope (average) | −0.37 | 0.36 | −1.02 (44) | .31 | −0.90 | 0.35 | −2.62 (44) | .01 |
| 7. Women’s psych. aggression | −1.00 | 18.11 | −0.06 (44) | .96 | 4.52 | 17.21 | 0.26 (44) | .79 |
| 8. Men’s psych. aggression | −4.78 | 15.79 | −0.30 (44) | .76 | 2.81 | 15.04 | 0.19 (44) | .85 |
| Women’s Topic | ||||||||
| Level 1 Effects | ||||||||
| 9. Women’s psych. aggression | 5.11 | 5.40 | 0.95 (734) | .34 | 4.97 | 5.44 | 0.91 (734) | .36 |
| 10. Men’s psych. aggression | −16.22 | 6.72 | −2.42 (734) | .02 | −12.12 | 6.75 | −1.80 (734) | .07 |
| Level 2 Effects | ||||||||
| 11. Intercept (sample average T4) | 51.36 | 1.30 | 39.50 (43) | .00 | 50.29 | 0.98 | 51.11 (43) | .00 |
| 12. Women’s psych. aggression | −26.50 | 45.18 | −0.59 (43) | .56 | −90.86 | 34.17 | −2.66 (43) | .01 |
| 13. Men’s psych. aggression | −96.58 | 59.12 | −1.63 (43) | .11 | −69.39 | 44.72 | −1.55 (43) | .13 |
| 14. Slope (average) | −0.31 | 0.38 | −0.83 (44) | .41 | −0.86 | 0.36 | −2.39 (44) | .02 |
| 15. Women’s psych. aggression | −1.86 | 13.06 | −0.14 (44) | .89 | −0.50 | 12.45 | −0.04 (44) | .97 |
| 16. Men’s psych. aggression | −5.72 | 17.50 | −0.33 (44) | .74 | −7.59 | −9.07 | 16.74 (44) | .59 |