Table 2.
Fixed Component | |||||||||
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General Family Functioning |
Mothers With Participating Fathers |
Fathers |
Mothers Without Participating Fathers |
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Change in Intercept | Adjusted Intercept | Change in Intercept | Adjusted Intercept | ||||||
Scale | Slope | p | Intercept | p | p | ||||
Child adaptation | 16.4 | < .01 | 61.7 | 3.5 | .08 | 65.2 | –1.8 | .57 | 59.9 |
Difficulty | 9.0 | < .01 | 16.7 | 0.0 | .99 | 16.7 | –0.1 | .92 | 16.6 |
Parental mutuality | –7.8 | < .01 | 46.1 | 0.8 | .05 | 46.9 | –0.9 | .04 | 45.2 |
Random Component | ||||
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Mothers |
Fathers |
Intrafamilial Correlation |
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Scale | SD | SD | Value | p |
Child adaptation | 27.8 | 27.2 | .63 | < .01 |
Difficulty | 10.2 | 10.4 | .50 | < .01 |
Parental mutuality | 4.0 | 3.4 | .13 | .13 |
Note: Using data from 324 two-parent families, with fathers and mothers participating for 145 families and only mothers for the remaining 179 families.