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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fam Relat. 2010 Jul 1;59(3):283–296. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2010.00602.x

Table 2.

Multi-level model results for discrimination predicting parents’ family relationship quality moderated by expressivity and instrumentality using residual maximum likelihood estimation (N = 312)

Family Relationship Quality
Parent-Adolescent Warmth Parent-Adolescent Conflict Coparenting Cooperation Coparenting Conflict Marital Satisfaction Marital Conflict

Predictors β (SE) β (SE) β (SE) β (SE) β (SE) β (SE)
Expressivity Moderator
 Intercept 4.18** (.04) 2.38** (.06) 3.53** (.06) 2.24** (.06) 6.77** (.14) 4.03** (.13)
 Family Income .00 (.00) −.00 (.00) .00 (.00) .00 (.00) .00 (.00) −.00 (.00)
 Discrimination −.04 (.09) .27* (.14) .24* (.12) .22** (.07) .21 (.26) .48** (.15)
 Gender −.10 (.06) −.20* (.09) .47** (.07) −.05 (.07) .52** (.16) −.47** (.15)
 Expressivity .28** (.04) −.04 (.07) .31** (.06) −.11 (.06) .50** (.13) −.22 (.12)
 Discrimination × Gender .26* (.11) −.15 (.18) −.23 (.15) -- -- −.53t (.32) -- --
 Discrimination × Expressivity -- -- −.20* (.10) .23** (.09) -- -- .31t (.19) -- --

Instrumentality Moderator
 Intercept 4.26** (.04) 2.38** (.07) 3.64** (.07) 2.21** (.06) 6.89** (.14) 4.04** (.13)
 Family Income −.00 (.00) −.00 (.00) −.00 (.00) .00 (.00) −.00 (.00) −.00 (.00)
 Discrimination −.03 (.09) .17 (.13) .27* (.13) .09 (.12) .33 (.26) .21 (.25)
 Gender −.25 (.06) −.20 (.09) .27** (.08) .01 (.07) .19 (.15) −.42** (.15)
 Instrumentality .08 (.06) −.04 (.09) .23** (.09) −.04 (.08) .11 (.17) .21 (.16)
 Discrimination × Gender .33 (.12) −.15 (.18) −.16 (.16) -- -- −.46 (.34) .13 (.33)
 Discrimination × Instrumentality .05 (.11) −.19 (.06) .14 (.14) -- -- .26 (.23) −.33 (.22)
 Discrimination × Gender × Instr. −.26 (.15) .50* (.23) −.45* (.21) -- -- −.91* (.44) .74 (.43)

Note. All non-significant two and three-way interactions are omitted

p < .10,

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01.