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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Fam Nurs. 2009 Mar 23;15(2):130–151. doi: 10.1177/1074840709331641

Table 2.

The Impact of General Family Functioning on Child Adaptation and on Family Management

Fixed Component
General Family Functioning
Mothers With Participating Fathers
Fathers
Mothers Without Participating Fathers
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
Mothers
Fathers
Intrafamilial Correlation
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.