TABLE 2.

Regression Coefficients for Trends in Self-Rated Health by Marital Status from Ordered Logistic Regression Models, 1972−2003

	Model 1	Model 2
Year × marital status (0 = married)
Year	.003***	.009***
Year × widowed	−.023***	−.028***
Year × divorced	−.008***	−.012***
Year × separated	−.008***	−.010***
Year × never married	.004***	.002*
Marital status (0 = married)
Widowed	−.013	.250***
Divorced	−.026	.269***
Separated	−.202***	.110***
Never married	−.158**	.138***
Basic demographic variables
Age	−.029***	−.026***
Age × widowed	.023***	.025***
Age × divorced	.004***	.003***
Age × separated	.002	−.001
Age × never married	.008***	.005***
Women	−.041***	−.009
African American	−.576***	−.476***
Education (0 = college graduate)
No high school diploma	−1.514***	−1.224***
High school graduate	−.779***	−.636***
Some college	−.429***	−.348***
Health measure recoded (0 = no)	.555***	.497***
Log of family income		.474***
Intercept 1	−4.077	1.131
Intercept 2	−2.480	2.759
Intercept 3	−.572	4.705
Pseudo R2	.081	.091
N	1119266

Two-tailed tests:

^***p < .001;

^**p < .01;

^*p < .05.