Table 3.

Intensity of Relationship and Individual Tensions as a Function of Generation, Gender, and Age of Adult Child

		Relationship			Individual
		B	SEB	F	B	SEB	F
Generation/gender of parent				2.80 *			6.00 **
Planned contrasts
	Father vs. adult child			2.34			11.76 **
	Mother vs. adult child			0.09			6.93 **
	Mother vs. father			1.21			0.40
	Child about Mother vs. Father			5.81 *			2.06
Gender of adult child (son)		−0.17	0.08	5.00 *	−0.16	0.08	4.03*
Age of adult child (age 34 to 49)		0.17	0.08	4.74 *	0.08	0.08	1.00
Between family variance		0.14	0.03	4.98 **	0.17	0.03	5.43 **
Parent/child variance within family		0.002	0.03	0.10	0.02	0.02	0.90
Residual variance		0.34	0.03	12.05 **	0.29	0.02	12.17 **
− 2 log likelihood		1237.4**			1206.5**

Note. F-tests are presented because they provide an omnibus indicator of significance rather than t-tests for each category. Planned contrasts in PROC MIXED do not include estimates for Bs.

Covariates included ethnicity, self-rated health, and social desirability.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.