Table 3.

Effect of Baseline Closeness and Closeness Change on Trajectory of Affect Balance: Results of the Final Model

Model Term	Estimate	SE	T-statistic	p-value
Model 1: Effect of Baseline Closeness
Intercept	7.27	1.65	4.40	<0.01*
Time	0.56	0.27	2.11	0.04*
Baseline Closeness	0.02	0.08	0.24	0.81
Time*Baseline Closeness	−0.04	0.01	−3.16	<0.01*
Alzheimer’s Diagnosis	0.43	0.21	2.05	0.04*
Female Adult offspring Caregiver	−2.06	1.74	−1.18	0.24
Female Spouse Caregiver	0.28	1.87	0.15	0.88
Male Adult offspring Caregiver	−5.56	2.89	−1.92	0.06
Male Spouse Caregiver	0.00	.	.	.
Baseline Closeness*Female Adult offspring Caregiver	0.15	0.09	1.67	0.10
Baseline Closeness*Female Spouse Caregiver	0.02	0.09	0.21	0.84
Baseline Closeness*Male Adult offspring Caregiver	0.30	0.14	2.12	0.04*
Baseline Closeness*Male spouse Caregiver	0.00	.	.	.
Number of Health Conditions	−0.39	0.07	−5.78	<0.01*
Time* Number of Health Conditions	0.10	0.04	2.83	0.01*
Behavioral Symptoms of Care Recipient (NPI)	−0.03	0.01	−3.67	<0.01*
Model 2: Effect of Closeness Change
Intercept	8.02	0.22	36.92	<0.01*
Time	−0.04	0.06	−0.77	0.44
Closeness Change	0.00	0.06	−0.03	0.98
Time * Closeness Change	−0.05	0.02	−2.47	0.01*
Alzheimer’s Diagnosis	0.57	0.21	2.69	0.01*
Number of Health Conditions	−0.28	0.06	−4.97	<0.01*
Time* Number of Health Conditions	0.07	0.02	3.07	<0.01*
Behavioral Symptoms of Care Recipient (NPI)	−0.04	0.01	−4.70	<0.01*
Time* Behavioral Symptoms of Care Recipient (NPI)	−0.01	0.00	−2.93	<0.01*

Note: Male Spouse is the reference group for the categorical kin relationship variable.

^*indicates statistical significance at a level of p < 0.05.