Table 1.

Estimated Effects of Life Course and Sociodemographic Characteristics on Marital Strain from Linear Growth Curve Model (N = 1,049)

Independent Variables	Marital Strain
	Latent Intercept		Latent Slope
	Est.	SE	Est.	SE
1986 life course
Age (in 10 year and centered at 4.93)	−.033**	.012	.001	.001
Age × Gender	−.036*	.017	−.002	.001
Age squared	—	—	.000	.001
Age squared × Gender	—	—	−.002*	.001
Sociodemographic controls
Gender (Male = 1)	−.044†	.025	.004	.003
Race (Black = 1)	.090*	.033	.000	.003
Education	.010†	.005	.000	.000
Household income (10,000)	−.001	.001	.000	.000
Previous divorce	.040	.033	.009***	.003
Means of growth parameters	−.092	.062	.012*	.005
Variances in growth parameters	.159***	.007	.000***	.000
R2	.056		.044

Notes: Two-tailed tests:

^†p < .1;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001.

— = Parameter not in model because of insignificance; SE = standard error.