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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Dev. 2012 Mar 14;83(3):1085–1101. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01749.x

Table 4.

OLS Model Regressing Child Internalizing Scores on Marriage, Marriage Propensity, and Their Interaction

(1) (2) (3)

b se b se b.s. se b se b.s. se
Marital Birth −1.388 0.136*** −0.751 0.184 0.188*** −0.943 0.279 0.300**
Marriage Propensity
 Low Propensity -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
 Moderate Propensity −0.934 0.196 0.219*** −0.996 0.238 0.272***
 High Propensity −1.000 0.211 0.220*** −1.142 0.340 0.355**
Propensity × Marital Birth
 Moderate Propensity × MB 0.330 0.428 0.515
 High Propensity × MB 0.359 0.458 0.475
Child is Firstborn −0.092 0.125 −0.073 0.124 0.124 −0.075 0.125 0.124
Child is Boy 0.072 0.123 0.054 0.123 0.127 0.055 0.123 0.127
Child Age in Months 0.099 0.028*** 0.086 0.028 0.029** 0.086 0.028 0.029**

Constant 2.115 0.991** 2.698 0.999 1.020** 2.688 1.001 1.022**
F 31.61*** 27.65*** 20.76***
Adjusted R2 0.05 0.06 0.06

Note. N = 2285; column “se” reports OLS standard errors; column “b.s. se” reports bootstrapped standard errors.

**

p < .01;

***

p < .001.