Table 5.
Standardized (Beta) Coefficients for OLS Regression of Psychological Distress on Relative Time in Child Rearing and Perceived Fairness of the Division of Child Rearing, by Gender
| Step | Variable | Men | Women | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | ||
| 1 | Age | .07 | .07 | .05 | .03 | .08 | .07 |
| Number of children | -.18 | -.19 | -.15 | -.00 | -.02 | -.01 | |
| Educational attainmenta | |||||||
| Some post-secondary | -.04 | -.06 | -.16 | .12 | .11 | .09 | |
| High school or less | .02 | .02 | -.09 | .02 | .03 | .05 | |
| Inadequate incomeb | .19 | .18 | *.24 | **.21 | **.20 | *.20 | |
| Weekly work hours | -.04 | -.04 | -.02 | -.06 | -.01 | -.06 | |
| Job demands | -.09 | -.10 | -.10 | *.18 | *.16 | .15 | |
| Decision latitude at work | *-.21 | -.20 | -.09 | -.04 | -.05 | -.05 | |
| 2 | Perceived relative time in child rearingc | .09 | .10 | **.19 | **.22 | ||
| 3 | Perceived fairness (child rearing) | ||||||
| Unfair to me | **.30 | -.01 | |||||
| Unfair to partner | .19 | .13 | |||||
| Adjusted R2 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.09 | |
| F (df) for change in R2 | 1.65 (8,95) | 0.87 (1,94) | **4.53 (2,92) | *2.26 (8,163) | **6.50 (1,162) | 1.42 (2,160) | |
a
compared to university/college graduates;
b
compared to adequate income;
c
compared to fair to both;
*
p ≤ 0.05
**
p ≤ 0.01