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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Emotion. 2013 Oct 7;13(6):1068–1079. doi: 10.1037/a0033761

Table 3.

Negative Emotional Behavior, 5-HTTLPR, and their Interaction as Predictors of Changes in Marital Satisfaction Over Time

T2 Marital Satisfaction T3 Marital Satisfaction

B SE(B) 95% CI B SE (B) 95% CI
Negative emotional behavior T1 −.30 .78 −1.86 1.25 −.29 .62 −1.53 .94
5-HTTLPR (H1)a 3.93 2.15 −.37 8.23 −.14 1.95 −4.04 3.77
5-HTTLPR (H2)b −3.96 2.35 −8.66 .73 −3.97 2.39 −8.75 .81

Negative emotional behavior T1 x 5-HTTLPR (H1)a .65 .81 −.97 2.27 .47 .71 −.96 1.90
Negative emotional behavior T1 x 5-HTTLPR (H2)b −.66 1.21 −3.08 1.77 −2.65* 1.05 −4.76 −.54

F(12,66) = 18.51; R2 = .77 F(12,58) = 14.27; R2 = .78

Note.

a

5 -HTTLPR (H1) (0 = long/long; 1 = short/long, short/short).

b

5 -HTTLPR (H2) (0 = short/long, long/long; 1 = short/short). Results from regression analyses controlling for depression, ethnicity, gender, cohort, education, positive emotional behavior, and marital satisfaction at T1. Standard errors corrected for clustering within couples.

*

p < .05.