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Published in final edited form as: J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2008 Jul;63(4):S201–S210. doi: 10.1093/geronb/63.4.s201

Table 5.

Combined Effects of Poverty and Other Family Stressors by Timing and Duration on Functional Status of Older African American Women: Odds Ratios From Maximum Likelihood Multinomial Logistic Regression

	Odds of Functional Status at Time 3:
	High vs Usual	High vs Low	Usual vs Low
Timing of Poverty and Family Stress^a
Poverty at: T1	.54^*	.56	1.05
Poverty at T2	1.33	1.11	.84
Poverty at T3	.47^**	.17^***	.36^***
Family stress at T2
Drug problems	.57	.42	.74
Trouble w/law	1.72	1.20	.70
Household conflict (high)	.88	.81	.92
Family stress at T3
Drug problems	1.16	.44^{^}	.38^**
Trouble w/law	.79	1.01	1.28
Household conflict (high)	.46^*	.49^{^}	1.07
Duration of Poverty and Family Stress^a
Duration of Poverty:
Not Poor	ref	ref	ref
Early only	1.43	1.40	.98
Late only	.73	.41^{^}	.56
Late/episodic	.75	.24^**	.32^**
Persistent	.21^**	.08^***	.36^*
Duration of Family Stress
No family stressors	ref	ref	ref
Time 2 only	.54	.47	.86
Time 3 only	.60^{^}	.55	.92
Persistent family stressors	.64	.40^*	.63

Model included age, health at Time 1 (chronic condition (yes/no); feeling sad fairly or very often (yes/no) in 1966), and health at Time 2 (feeling not very or not at all healthy (yes/no); feeling sad fairly or very often (yes/no) in 1976)

^{^}

p<0.10;

p<0.05;

^**

p<0.01;

^***

p<0.001