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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2010 Apr 1;72(2):267–281. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00698.x

Table 3. Summary of Hierarchical Regression Models Predicting Sibling’ Temporal Involvement as a Function of Sibling Differentiation Polynomials, Sex Constellation, and Differentiation X Sex Constellation Interactions (N = 136).

Model 1 Model 2

Variable B SE B β B SE B β
Intercept 564.18 ** 44.87 593.94 ** 46.94
Parents’ education −9.44 23.95 −.04 −5.45 23.72 −.02
Family income −.00 .00 −.10 −.00 .00 −.10
Parents’ job prestige .00 3.30 .00 −.18 3.25 −.01
Age spacing −55.73** 16.87 −.30 −49.68** 16.82 −.26
Older siblings’ residential
status
−235.44* 106.92 −.19 −249.50* 105.81 −.21
Sex composition −148 .72* 57.78 −.21 −223.93** 67.36 −.31
Differentiation 79.08* 38.30 .17 87.33 56.26 .18
Differentiation2 12.07 32.07 .03 −41.46 41.71 −.11
Differentiation X Sex
composition
−49.15 77.01 −.07
Differentiation2 X Sex
composition
145.60* 64.67 .25
R 2 .23 .26
F for change in R2 4.70** 3.02*

p < .10.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.