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Published in final edited form as: J Health Soc Behav. 2009 Sep;50(3):344–358. doi: 10.1177/002214650905000307

TABLE 4.

Coefficients from Regressions^a of Health Outcomes on Marital Durations, By Marital Transition History, 1992 Health and Retirement Study

	Model 1 (Continuously Married)				Model 2 (Ever Disrupted)
	Number of Chronic Conditions	Number of Mobility Limitations	Self-rated Health	Depression Index	Number of Chronic Conditions	Number of Mobility Limitations	Self-rated Health	Depression Index
Age at Marriage	−.01^*	−.01^*	−.01	.0001	−.01^***	−.02^***	−.01^*	.003
Percent Years Disrupted					.003^**	.002^*	.002	−.0003
Currently Married					−.02	−.06	−.14	−.16^***
Two or More Disruptions					.07	.10^*	.07	.03
Age	.05^***	.02^***	.05^***	−.002	.03^***	.02^**	.03^**	−.007^**
Male	.13^***	−.40^***	.07	−.07^***	.008	−.25^***	−.03	−.05^**
Black^b	.26^***	.22^**	.76^***	.08^***	.21^***	.11^*	.62^***	.04^*
Hispanic^b	−.18^**	−.07	.23	.03	−.06	−.17^*	.30^*	.03
Years of Education	−.03^***	−.08^***	−.18^***	−.02^***	−.04^***	−.10^***	−.21^***	−.04^***
Long-term Condition	.44^***	.88^***	1.75^***	.27^***	.22^*	.62^***	1.42^***	.26^***
Constant	−2.60^***	−.16		1.73^***	−1.26^***	.58		2.40^***
Cut-point 1			−.95				−2.34
Cut-point 2			−.95				−.98
Cut-point 3			2.10				.33
Cut-point 4			3.52				1.60
N^c	4,841	4,702	4,841	4,841	3,473	3,346	3,473	3,473
Log Likelihood	−5,397	−5,956	−6,738		−4,267	−4,863	−5,099
χ²	218	372	574		206	408	669
F				30				39
(df)	7	7	7	(7,120)	10	10	10	(10,121)

p ≤ .05;

^**

p ≤ .01;

^***

p ≤ .001

Model specification varies by the metric of the outcome variable: chronic conditions (range 0–6) and mobility limitations (range 0–5) — negative binomial; self-rated health (range 1–5) — ordered logit; depression index (range 1–4) — OLS. Higher values indicate worse health.

Reference category is non-Hispanic white.

Standard errors calculated taking into account the clustered sampling design of the HRS.