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Published in final edited form as: J Soc Pers Relat. 2010 May 1;27(3):367–387. doi: 10.1177/0265407509348810

Table 2.

APIM Results: Empathic Accuracy and Assumed Similarity in Rating Emotions in Marital Conflict in the Moderating Context of Wife Depressive Symptoms

	Positive			Anger			Sadness			Fear
Main Effects	b	SE	t	b	SE	t	b	SE	t	b	SE	t

Wife Assumed Similarity (a)	.88	.03	28.61^**	.71	.04	17.31^**	.44	.03	13.94^**	.40	.03	12.63^**
Husband Assumed Similarity (d)	.90	.04	24.92^**	.84	.05	17.79^**	.70	.05	14.61^**	.62	.04	14.16^**
Wife Empathic Accuracy (c)	.02	.04	0.52	.20	.05	4.21^**	.14	.03	4.42^**	.12	.03	3.63^**
Husband Empathic Accuracy (b)	.07	.03	2.02^*	.23	.04	5.61^**	.21	.05	4.25^**	.29	.04	6.81^**
Moderated Paths
Wife Assumed Sim. × Symptoms (a^*)	-.01	.003	-2.08^*	.00	.04	0.13	.02	.003	5.53^**	.02	.00	8.21^**
Husb Assumed Sim. × Symptoms (d^*)	-.001	.003	-0.33	-.001	.004	-0.10	-.01	.01	-1.40	.01	.004	2.04^*
Wife Emp. Accuracy × Symptoms (c^*)	-.01	.003	-1.97^*	-.02	.01	1.14	-.004	.003	-1.33	-.01	.003	-2.69^**
Husb Emp. Accuracy × Symptoms (b^*)	.00	.004	0.03	-.01	.004	-3.25^**	.01	.004	2.32^*	.001	.003	0.20

Note. N = 267 couples. Covariates include self and partner depressive symptoms, both partners’ marital satisfaction, and coder-rated marital behavior (all variables correlated). Letters in parentheses correspond to pathways in Figure 1 and Figure 2.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.