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Published in final edited form as: J Fam Psychol. 2008 Apr;22(2):274–286. doi: 10.1037/0893-3200.22.2.274

Table 2.

Hierarchical Regression Models Predicting Marital Interactions and Marital Adjustment

Adolescent-era predictors	Marital hostility		Marital positive engagement		Marital adjustment
Adolescent-era predictors	Step 1	Step 2	Step 1	Step 2	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3
Sex (0 = female; 1 = male)	−.01	.00	−.04	−.00	− .08	− .05	− .06
Psychiatric hospitalization	.43^**	.32^*	−.56^**	−.38^**	− .30^*	−.17	−.23
Family hostility		.47^**		−.32^**		−.22	.05
Family positive engagement		.06		.18		.14	.07
Sex X Family hostility							−.40^*
Sex X Family engagement
Psychiatric hospitalization X Family hostility
Psychiatric hospitalization X Family engagement
Family hostility X Family engagement
Statistics for step
R²	.19^**	.38^**	.32^**	.46^**	.10	.17	.25^*
A R²		.19^**		.14^**		.07	.08^*
F	5.04^**	6.38^**	10.36^**	8.84^**	2.35	2.04	2.66^*
(df)	(2, 44)	(4, 42)	(2, 44)	(4, 42)	(2, 43)	(4, 41)	(5, 40)

Note. Values presented are standardized regression weights. If no value was entered for a variable in Step 3, its contribution to prediction of the criterion variable was not significant, and it was not included in the final model.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.