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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Aging. 2012 Mar;34(2):197–221. doi: 10.1177/0164027511420170

Table 2.

Multilevel logistic regression models of parents’ exchange of socioemotional support with their adult children

Parents receive socioemotional support from child Parents give socioemotional support to child
Model 1
Baseline Model
Model 2
Baseline + effect of
received support from one
child on received support
from other children
Model 3
Baseline Model
Model 4
Baseline + effect of support
given to one child on
support given to each other
children
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
Parental Household
Characteristics
Age 1.01* 1.01-1.02 1.01* 1.01-1.02 0.98* 0.98-0.99 0.99* 0.98-0.99
Gender (F = 1) 1.7* 1.47-1.95 1.71* 1.48-1.98 1.07 0.92-1.25 1.03 0.91-1.18
Black 1.29* 1.06-1.56 1.29* 1.06-1.57 1.26* 1.02-1.55 1.20* 1.00-1.44
Hispanic 1.12 0.82-1.55 1.13 0.81-1.56 0.98 0.7-1.37 0.99 0.74-1.32
Currently Married 0.79* 0.69-0.91 0.8* 0.69-0.93 1.14 0.98-1.33 1.15* 1.01-1.31
Health 0.94 0.88-1.01 0.96 0.89-1.03 1.01 0.94-1.09 1.00 0.94-1.07
Education 1.01 0.99-1.03 1.01 0.99-1.04 1.06* 1.04-1.09 1.05* 1.03-1.08
# Children 0.91* 0.88-0.94 0.93* 0.9-0.96 0.86* 0.84-0.90 0.89* 0.86-0.91
Adult Child in HH 1.08 0.91-1.27 1.07 0.9-1.27 1.34* 1.11-1.60 1.25* 1.07-1.46
Adult Child Characteristics
Distance from Parent 0.98* 0.97-0.98 0.98* 0.98-0.99 0.98* 0.98-0.99 0.98* 0.98-0.99
Gender (F = 1) 1.45* 1.34-1.56 1.43* 1.32-1.54 1.28* 1.19-1.37 1.36* 1.25-1.48
Biological Child 2.43* 1.99-2.97 2.32* 1.89-2.85 1.56* 1.31-1.84 1.67* 1.40-2.00
Currently Married 1.21* 1.1-1.32 1.2* 1.09-1.32 0.86* 0.78-0.93 0.83* 0.75-0.92
Has Children 0.99 0.89-1.09 0.99 0.9-1.1 1.13* 1.03-1.24 1.10 0.99-1.23
Cross-Sibling Interactions
Support from/to one child on
support from/to each other child
--- --- 0.77* 0.67-0.89 --- --- 4.98* 4.32-5.75
constant 0.18* 0.09-0.34 0.17* 0.09-0.33 2.23* 1.13-4.40 1.07 0.59-1.92
*

odds ratio (OR) is significant at p ≤ 0.05, two-tailed test