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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Fam Psychol. 2011 Apr;25(2):240–250. doi: 10.1037/a0023003

Table 2.

Predicting Couple Communication over 10 years as a function of Time (at level-1) and Intervention Group (at level-2) for n=81 mother/fathers dyads.

Positive Couple Communication ( χ(6)2=5.13, p = 0.53; CFI = 1.00; RMSEA [90% CI] = 0.00 [0.00, 0.13])
Parameter Estimate SE p Adj p
Fixed Effects
Intercept, η0i Intercept α0 8.32 0.56 <0.01 <0.01
Marital vs. Control γA0 0.10 0.78 0.90 0.99
Parenting vs. Control γB0 −0.50 0.78 0.52 0.99
Linear, η1i Intercept α1 −1.32 0.29 <0.01 <0.01
Marital vs. Control1 γA1 1.20 0.38 <0.01 0.02
Parenting vs. Control2 γB1 0.80 0.40 0.04 0.33
Quadratic, η2i Intercept α2 0.13 0.03 <0.01 <0.01
Marital vs. Control3 γA2 −0.13 0.04 <0.01 0.01
Parenting vs. Control4 γB2 0.08 0.04 0.03 0.27
Negative Couple Communication ( χ(8)2=10.35, p = 0.24; CFI = 0.91; RMSEA [90% CI] = 0.06 [0.00, 0.15])
Parameter Estimate SE p Adj p
Fixed Effects
Intercept, η0i Intercept α0 6.76 0.72 <0.01 <0.01
Marital vs. Control γA0 −0.44 0.99 0.66 0.99
Parenting vs. Control γB0 090 1.00 0.37 0.98
Linear, η1i Intercept α1 0.41 0.47 0.38 0.99
Marital vs. Control5 γA1 −1.40 0.62 0.02 0.19
Parenting vs. Control γB1 −1.06 0.63 0.09 0.58
Quadratic, η2i Intercept α2 0.04 0.05 0.41 0.99
Marital vs. Control6 γA2 0.15 0.06 0.02 0.13
Parenting vs. Control γB2 0.10 0.06 0.11 0.65
1

Effect size r=0.33;

2

Effect size r=0.22;

3

Effect size r=0.35;

4

Effect size r=0.23;

5

Effect size r=0.25;

6

Effect size r=0.26

Note: Adjusted p-values determined by Bonferroni correction