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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2010 Jun;25(2):422–431. doi: 10.1037/a0019087

Table 4.

Final HLM Estimates of Marital Satisfaction or Time Spent with Others as a Moderator of Daily Links between Perceived Health and Happiness

Happiness
Unstandardized
Coefficient
SE t Effect size
r
Marital Satisfaction
Men and Women
Marital Sat × Pain, γ21 .005 .001 4.86*** .59
Mar Sat × Physical Limitation, γ21 .007 .001 4.67*** .57
Time Spent with others
Men and Women
Time Spent with others × Pain, γ21 −.246 .234 −1.05 .15
Time Spent × Physical Limitation, γ21 −.034 .254 −.13 .02
**

p< .01;

***

p< .001

Note. Separate models were estimated for pain and physical limitation. All analyses control for previous day’s level of happiness. Estimates for the moderating impact of marital satisfaction and time spent with others on pain-happiness and physical limitation-happiness links were constrained to be equivalent across gender.