Table 4.
Ordered Logit predicting poor health and OLS Regressions predicting depressive symptoms at Wave III from cumulative relationship risk index variables and controls.
| General Healtha (N=9850) | Depressive Symptoms (N=9798) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odds Ratio | t | p | β | t | p | |
| Relationship Risk (no relationship risk) | ||||||
| One relationship risk | 1.309 | 4.07 | .000 | .068 | 2.17 | .032 |
| Two relationship risks | 1.673 | 6.78 | .000 | .281 | 7.79 | .000 |
| Three relationship risks | 1.895 | 6.76 | .000 | .416 | 8.34 | .000 |
| Four or more relationship risks | 2.197 | 4.83 | .000 | .437 | 4.47 | .000 |
| Wave I Health and Demographic Controls | ||||||
| Self-rated health (very good) | ||||||
| Excellent | .469 | −11.77 | .000 | −.049 | −1.60 | .112 |
| Good | .170 | 8.11 | .000 | .023 | .70 | .485 |
| Fair | 3.192 | 10.63 | .000 | .069 | 1.17 | .244 |
| Poor | 9.578 | 3.65 | .001 | .009 | .05 | .963 |
| Depressive symptoms | 1.080 | 2.66 | .009 | .221 | 11.86 | .000 |
| Physical limitation | 1.079 | .50 | .621 | −.095 | −1.08 | .282 |
| Symptom count | 1.009 | 1.96 | .052 | .010 | 3.88 | .000 |
| Baseline cardiac abnormality | 2.096 | 1.04 | .299 | .188 | .50 | .165 |
| Baseline asthma | 4.998 | 3.23 | .002 | .187 | .98 | .328 |
| Body mass indexb (2nd quartile) | ||||||
| BMI 1st quartile | 1.112 | 1.68 | .095 | .062 | 1.79 | .076 |
| BMI 3rd quartile | 1.127 | 1.73 | .085 | .059 | 1.76 | .080 |
| BMI 4th quartile | 1.673 | 6.63 | .000 | .066 | 1.87 | .063 |
| Gender (male = 1) | .833 | −3.06 | .003 | −198 | −7.99 | .000 |
| Parental educationb (high school) | ||||||
| Less than high school | 1.022 | .22 | .828 | .069 | 1.92 | .057 |
| Some college | .998 | −.03 | .975 | .028 | .80 | .423 |
| College | .927 | −.93 | .352 | .029 | .83 | .410 |
| More than college | .764 | −2.76 | .007 | −.070 | −1.79 | .076 |
| Race/ethnicity (White) | ||||||
| Black | .908 | −1.24 | .217 | .070 | 1.59 | .114 |
| Native American | .747 | −1.47 | .144 | −.092 | −.68 | .498 |
| Asian | 1.406 | 2.49 | .014 | .141 | 2.15 | .034 |
| Hispanic | .961 | −.55 | .581 | .113 | 2.57 | .011 |
| Other | .985 | −.05 | .959 | .112 | 1.09 | .277 |
| Wave II Health Behavior Controls | ||||||
| Physical exercise | .982 | −1.51 | .132 | .007 | 1.52 | .130 |
| Current smoking | 1.194 | 2.93 | .004 | .039 | 1.40 | .164 |
| Fast food consumption | .997 | −.24 | .813 | −.011 | −1.53 | .129 |
| Binge drinking | 1.032 | .55 | .584 | −.009 | −.32 | .749 |
| Constantc | -- | -- | -- | −.204 | −1.33 | .187 |
| Cut 1d | −.666 | −2.29 | .024 | -- | -- | -- |
| Cut 2 | 1.369 | 4.76 | .000 | -- | -- | -- |
| Cut 3 | 3.573 | 12.46 | .000 | -- | -- | -- |
| Cut 4 | 6.194 | 16.79 | .000 | -- | -- | -- |
Note: Also controlling for age, WI family structure (two parents, both biological; two parents, one biological; single mother, single father, other); WIII marital status (married, remaried, divorced, widowed, cohabitating); WIII single parenthood, and WIII number of births.
a
Higher scores indicate worse health
b
Missing data were coded as a separate category
c
Intercept for OLS regression predicting depressive symptoms
d
Estimated cut points for ordered regression model for general health