Table 4.
Hazard Models Predicting Divorce Among Married Women, Including Relationship Dissatisfaction (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 | −0.15** | 0.05 | −0.15** | 0.05 | −0.14* | 0.05 | −0.11 | 0.06 | 0.89 | |||||
| Black | 0.29 | 0.36 | 0.26 | 0.37 | 0.46 | 0.31 | 0.72 | 0.84 | 2.05 | |||||
| Hispanic | −0.10 | 0.28 | −0.12 | 0.27 | −0.09 | 0.28 | −0.70 | 0.48 | 0.50 | |||||
| Other race/ethnicity | 0.44 | 0.38 | 0.46 | 0.38 | 0.40 | 0.39 | 0.10 | 0.48 | 1.11 | |||||
| Religiosity | −0.10 | 0.08 | −0.12 | 0.08 | −0.08 | 0.08 | −0.07 | 0.08 | 0.93 | |||||
| Prior cohabitation | 0.32 | 0.28 | 0.31 | 0.26 | 0.34 | 0.27 | 0.28 | 0.26 | 1.32 | |||||
| Heavy drinking | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 1.11 | |||||
| Parental physical abuse | −0.18 | 0.19 | −0.21 | 0.18 | −0.18 | 0.18 | −0.30 | 0.20 | 0.74 | |||||
| Parental education | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.20 | 0.04 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.19 | 1.13 | |||||
| Parental separation | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 1.17 | |||||
| Relationship dissatisfaction |
0.10 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.06 | −0.05 | 0.07 | −0.03 | 0.08 | 0.97 | |||||
| Victimization | −0.15 | 0.14 | 0.86 | |||||||||||
| Proportional earnings | −0.36 | 0.28 | −0.41 | 0.29 | −0.46 | 0.27 | −0.62 | 0.32 | 0.54 | |||||
| Education | −0.85* | 0.37 | −0.85* | 0.35 | −0.87* | 0.36 | −1.10* | 0.47 | 0.33 | |||||
| Dissatisfaction × prop. earnings | 0.36*** | 0.09 | 0.27* | 0.12 | 1.32 | |||||||||
| Dissatisfaction × Education |
0.47*** | 0.11 | 0.35*** | 0.09 | 1.42 | |||||||||
| Victimization × prop. earnings | 0.44 | 0.26 | 1.55 | |||||||||||
| Victimization × education | 0.61* | 0.28 | 1.84 | |||||||||||
| Husbands’ characteristics | ||||||||||||||
| Age | 0.00 | 0.02 | 1.00 | |||||||||||
| Black | −0.46 | 0.82 | 0.63 | |||||||||||
| Hispanic | 0.67 | 0.47 | 1.95 | |||||||||||
| Other | 0.42 | 0.45 | 1.52 | |||||||||||
| Education | −0.24 | 0.38 | 0.79 | |||||||||||
| Victimization | 0.09 | 0.13 | 1.09 | |||||||||||
| Couple characteristics | ||||||||||||||
| Child in marriage | 0.04 | 0.22 | 1.05 | |||||||||||
| Marital duration | 0.01 | 0.06 | 1.01 | |||||||||||
| Total household income ($10K) | 0.00 | 0.04 | 1.00 | |||||||||||
| F | 3.89*** | 5.94*** | 11.02*** | 8.57*** | ||||||||||
| df | 116 | 115 | 115 | 102 | ||||||||||
Note: White is reference category for wives’ and husbands’ race. HR = hazard ratio; prop. = proportional.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.