Table 3.

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

	Positive			Anger			Sadness			Fear
Main Effects	b	SE	t	b	SE	t	b	SE	t	b	SE	t
Wife Assumed Similarity (a)	.89	.03	28.47**	.70	.04	17.12**	.46	.03	14.27**	.43	.03	13.90**
Husband Assumed Similarity (d)	.90	.04	25.01**	.84	.05	17.63**	.74	.05	15.51**	.63	.04	14.52**
Wife Empathic Accuracy (c)	.01	.04	0.18	.23	.05	4.97**	.16	.03	5.09**	.14	.03	4.45**
Husband Empathic Accuracy (b)	.06	.03	1.93	.22	.04	5.19**	.21	.05	4.32**	.31	.04	7.28**
Moderated Paths
Wife Assumed Sim. × Symptoms (a*)	-.004	.003	-1.26	.01	.004	2.77**	.01	.003	3.51**	.03	.003	9.11**
Husb Assumed Sim. × Symptoms (d*)	-.01	.004	-1.67	-.003	.004	-0.69	-.02	.004	-3.58**	-.003	.004	-0.80
Wife Emp. Accuracy × Symptoms (c*)	.0032	.004	0.70	-.01	.004	-1.35	-.01	.003	-3.83**	-.01	.003	-1.93
Husb Emp. Accuracy × Symptoms (b*)	.001	.003	0.37	-.01	.01	-2.44*	.01	.004	2.30*	-.01	.004	-1.67

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.