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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2013 May 20;75(3):565–581. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12018

Table 3.

Hazard Models Predicting Divorce Among Married Women (N = 60,780 Person-Observations; 914 Persons)

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Variables B SE B SE B SE B SE HR
Wives’ characteristics
Age −0.14* 0.05 −0.13* 0.05 −0.15** 0.06 −0.14* 0.06 0.87
Black 0.38 0.32 0.43 0.31 0.24 0.36 0.69 0.81 1.99
Hispanic −0.14 0.27 −0.14 0.26 −0.15 0.27 −0.62 0.46 0.54
Other race/ethnicity 0.32 0.41 0.32 0.41 0.34 0.41 0.15 0.50 1.16
Religiosity −0.08 0.08 −0.08 0.08 −0.07 0.08 −0.06 0.08 0.95
Prior cohabitation 0.35 0.27 0.34 0.27 0.37 0.27 0.37 0.27 1.45
Heavy drinking 0.09 0.08 0.10 0.08 0.12 0.08 0.13 0.09 1.14
Parental physical abuse −0.15 0.18 −0.22 0.19 −0.16 0.19 −0.32 0.21 0.72
Parental education 0.06 0.20 0.11 0.20 0.04 0.20 0.11 0.19 1.11
Parental separation 0.17 0.16 0.21 0.16 0.19 0.15 0.23 0.16 1.26
Victimization 0.16 0.09 0.10 0.09 −0.08 0.11 −0.20 0.13 0.81
Proportional earnings −0.35 0.28 −0.41 0.29 −0.73* 0.31 −0.65* 0.31 0.52
Education −0.86* 0.37 −1.32** 0.48 −0.87* 0.36 −1.12* 0.48 0.33
Victimization × prop. earnings 0.78** 0.24 0.72** 0.26 2.06
Victimization × education 0.86** 0.30 0.68* 0.30 1.98
Husbands’ characteristics
Age 0.00 0.02 1.00
Black −0.46 0.79 0.63
Hispanic 0.61 0.46 1.84
Other 0.40 0.47 1.49
Education −0.28 0.38 0.76
Victimization 0.10 0.12 1.11
Couple characteristics
Child in marriage 0.02 0.22 1.02
Marital duration 0.05 0.06 1.05
Total household income ($10k) 0.00 0.04 1.00
F 4.72*** 3.87*** 4.27*** 2.67***
df 116 115 115 105

Note: White is reference category for wives’ and husbands’ race. HR = hazard ratio; prop. = proportional.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.

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