Table 5.

Effects of Early Primary-Adult Household Composition on the Later Health of African American Women: Regression Models for Depressed Mood

		Depressed Mood at Time 3 (1997)

Household Composition		Model 1 (N=675)			Model 2 (N=672)			Model 3 (N=675)			Model 4 (N=672)

Time 1 (1966)	Time 2 (1976)	B	SE	β	B	SE	β	B	SE	β	B	SE	β
1. Husband	1. Husband	Reference			Reference			Reference			Reference
2. Lone Adult	2. Lone Adult	2.30	0.73	0.14^**	2.05	0.73	0.12^**	1.46	0.86	0.09^†	1.59	0.85	0.09^†
3. Other Adult	3. Other Adult	1.16	1.09	0.04	1.13	1.09	0.04	0.57	1.13	0.02	0.75	1.13	0.03
4. Lone or Other Adult	4. Husband	0.30	0.96	0.01	0.27	0.95	0.01	0.01	0.99	0.00	0.10	0.99	0.00
5. Husband	5. Lone Adult	1.43	0.89	0.07	1.34	0.89	0.06	0.92	0.94	0.04	0.98	0.94	0.05
6. Other Adult	6. Lone Adult	0.98	1.41	0.03	0.96	1.40	0.03	0.29	1.45	0.01	0.50	1.44	0.01
7. Husband	7. Other Adult	1.05	0.98	0.04	1.20	0.98	0.05	0.75	1.00	0.03	0.97	1.00	0.04
8. Lone Adult	8. Other Adult	0.25	0.83	0.01	0.21	0.82	0.01	−0.44	0.92	−0.02	−0.20	0.92	−0.01
Controls
Age		−0.09	0.05	−0.07^†	−0.11	0.05	−0.09^*	−0.09	0.05	−0.08^*	−0.11	0.05	−0.09^*
Fairly/Very Often Sad at Time 1		3.18	0.73	0.18^***	3.02	0.74	0.17^***	3.11	0.74	0.17^***	3.00	0.74	0.17^***
Fairly/Very Often Anxious at Time 1		0.62	0.57	0.04	0.71	0.57	0.05	0.61	0.57	0.04	0.69	0.57	0.05
SES:
Years of Education					−0.33	0.11	−0.12^**				−0.29	0.11	−0.10^**
Early Poverty:
Not Poor Time 1 or Time 2					Reference			Reference			Reference
Poor Time 1 only								0.76	0.74	0.05	0.49	0.75	0.03
Poor Time 2 only								1.20	0.85	0.06	0.95	0.85	0.05
Poor Time 1 and Time 2								1.42	0.75	0.10^†	0.85	0.78	0.06

R² (F test)		0.07 (5.06^***)			0.09 (5.67^***)			0.08 (4.22^***)			0.09 (4.57^***)

Note: Positive coefficients indicate poorer health for household composition group compared to reference group (Husband-Husband).

^†

p<.10

p<.05

^**

p<.01

^***

p<.001.