Table 3.

Final Summary Table: Unstandardized Coefficients for Respondent and Cross-Partner Links Between Control Variables, Depressive Symptoms, and Level, Rate of Change, and Curvature in Conflict for Fathers and Mothers (N = 132) Couples

	Level of Conflict		Rate of Change in Conflict		Curvature in Conflict
Predictors	Father Coefficient	Mother Coefficient	Father Coefficient	Mother Coefficient	Father Coefficient	Mother Coefficient
Step 1: controls
Intraspouse work hours	ns	ns	–	ns	–	ns
Cross-spouse work hours	ns	ns	–	ns	–	ns
Marital status	ns	ns		ns		ns
Respondent age	−.03*	ns		ns		ns
Depressive symptoms
Intraspouse level	2.14***	3.32***	–	ns	–	−.02*
Intraspouse slope	–	−51.55	–	4.68***	–	.56*
Cross-spouse level	ns	ns	–	ns	–	ns
Cross-Spouse slope	ns	–	–	ns	–	ns
Step 2: work schedulesa
Intraspouse evening/night	ns	ns	–	ns	–	ns
Intraspouse rotating	ns	.655*	–	ns	–	−.007*
Cross-spouse evening/night	ns	ns	–	ns		ns
Cross-spouse rotating	ns	ns	–	ns	–	ns
Step 3: role overload
Intraspouse overload	.250**	.175*
Cross-spouse overload	ns	.092†

Note: Table indicates all variables tested; coefficients presented for significant predictors in final, trimmed model. ns = nonsignificant.

^aShift variables dummy coded. Evening/night and rotating shifts compared to day shift.

^†p < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.