Table 4.
Odds Ratios from Logit Regression Models Predicting Very Satisfied with Life
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 | Model 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel A. Odds Ratios for Relationship Status and Explanatory Variables and Model-fit Statistics from Full Models with Ever-Married Respondents as Reference Group | ||||||
| Relationship Status | ||||||
| Single | .48*** | .46*** | .40*** | .40*** | .43*** | .43*** |
| Unengaged daters | .58*** | .54*** | .46*** | .45*** | .50*** | .46*** |
| Engaged daters | .64** | .63** | .57*** | .56*** | .57*** | .48*** |
| Unengaged cohabitors | .54*** | .53*** | .52*** | .51*** | .53*** | .51*** |
| Engaged cohabitors | .73* | .74* | .75 | .75 | .75 | .72* |
| Explanatory Variables | ||||||
| CES-D, Wave 1 | .96*** | .96*** | .96*** | .96*** | .98*** | |
| Still in high school | .80 | .81 | .79 | .76 | ||
| Went to college, dropped out | 1.01 | 1.01 | 1.01 | 1.01 | ||
| Two-year college student | 1.20* | 1.20* | 1.18* | 1.12 | ||
| Earned Associate’s degree | 1.17 | 1.17 | 1.15 | 1.09 | ||
| Four-year college student | 1.92*** | 1.92*** | 1.87*** | 1.82*** | ||
| Earned Bachelor’s degree or higher | 1.74*** | 1.74*** | 1.70*** | 1.56*** | ||
| Personal earnings | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | .98 | ||
| Co-resident child(ren) | .99 | .97 | .91 | |||
| Zero sex partners in last year | .94 | .98 | ||||
| Two or more sex partners in last year | .70*** | .73*** | ||||
| Self-image | 1.54*** | |||||
| −2 log likelihood | 15091.1 | 14875.1 | 14738.2 | 14733.4 | 14662.6 | 13126.3 |
| Panel B. Odds Ratios for Relationship Status ariables from Full Models with First Married at Ages 22–26 as Reference Group | ||||||
| Single | .35*** | .35*** | .33*** | .33*** | .36*** | .33*** |
| Unengaged daters | .41*** | .40*** | .37*** | .37*** | .41*** | .36*** |
| Engaged daters | .46*** | .47*** | .46*** | .46*** | .47*** | .38*** |
| Unengaged cohabitors | .39*** | .40*** | .42*** | .42*** | .44*** | .40*** |
| Engaged cohabitors | .53*** | .56*** | .61** | .61** | .61** | .56** |
| First married as a teenager | .54*** | .59** | .67* | .67* | .68* | .62** |
| First married at ages 20 or 21 | .73* | .76* | .82 | .82 | .83 | .78 |
*
p < .05
**
p < .01
***
p < .001
Notes: Reference groups are ever-married, never went to college, one sex partner in last year, suburban, White, and normal weight. Models include, but do not display, controls for age, gender, region, urbanicity, race-ethnicity, body mass index classification, physical attractiveness, classification, physical attractiveness, attractiveness of personality, and work status. Models in Panel B include the same controls as well as the explanatory variables displayed in Panel A. N = 11,688