Table 6.

Anxiety Symptoms: Parameters Estimates for the Effects of Sex, Marital Conflict, RSA-B, SCL-B, RSA-R, SCL-R, and Their Interactions on Growth Factors, the Residual Variance of the Growth Factors, and the Amount of Variance Predicted in Each Growth Factor (N = 244)

	Baseline × Baseline				Reactivity × Reactivity
	Intercept (M = 5.93***, SE = 1.40)		Slope (M =–0.01, SE = 0.91)		Intercept (M = 4.95***, SE =0.53)		Slope (M = –0.77*, SE =0.35)
Predictor	B	SE	B	SE	B	SE	B	SE
Main effects
Sex	2.59	2.40	0.62	1.62	0.90	0.98	–0.09	0.65
MC	–0.88	3.04	–1.05	1.87	1.93†	1.14	–0.27	0.71
RSA-B	–2.98	10.35	0.21	6.95	–6.69†	4.02	–3.89	2.74
SCL-B	0.27	0.28	0.15	0.18	0.12	0.10	–0.06	0.07
RSA-R					–14.49	9.90	–2.62	6.67
SCL-R					–0.28	0.20	0.08	0.13
2-way interactions
RSA × SCL	–1.77	1.71	–1.15	1.10	1.78	3.86	1.25	2.52
RSA × MC	13.63	17.36	5.25	10.30	27.17	24.82	3.61	15.66
RSA × Sex	–11.38	13.65	– 3.24	9.27	–1.65	15.80	–6.87	10.63
SCL × MC	0.42	0.50	0.29	0.30	0.11	0.26	0.16	0.16
SCL × Sex	–0.81*	0.42	–0.36	0.28	–0.17	0.31	–0.21	0.20
MC × Sex	5.70	3.93	1.63	2.51	–0.48	1.44	–0.22	0.91
3-way interactions
RSA × SCL × MC	–2.67	2.68	–1.74	1.61	1.78	6.32	3.22	3.91
RSA × SCL × Sex	6.15*	2.50	2.03	1.67	–4.28	5.10	–2.12	3.34
RSA × MC × Sex	–43.62*	22.00	–18.19	13.82	11.04	27.93	12.26	17.94
SCL × MC × Sex	–1.18	0.80	–0.60	0.51	–0.49	0.46	–0.21	0.29
4-way interaction
RSA × SCL × MC × Sex	9.05*	4.41	5.62*	2.85	–16.09*	8.23	–9.71†	5.24
Residual variance	9.84***		3.56**		9.65***		3.52**
R 2	18.9%		11.6%		23.0%		15.7%

Note. RSA = respiratory sinus arrhythmia; SCL = skin conductance level; RSA-B = RSA during baseline; RSA-R = RSA reactivity; SCL-B = SCL during baseline; SCL-R = SCL reactivity; MC = marital conflict.

^†p < .10.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.