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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2015 Mar 16;77(3):791–805. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12185

Table 4.

Multinomial Logistic Regression Analyses for Classes of Support Exchanges With Parents and Parents-in-Law by Gender

Predictor Balanced pattern Unbalanced pattern
Class 1:
High exchanges
with both sets
of parents		 Class 2:
Low exchanges
with both sets
of parents		 Class 3:
Giving
exchanges
with both sets
of parents		 Class 4:
Exchanges
only with
own parents		 Class 5:
Moderate/high
exchanges
with own
parents
but, obligatory
exchanges
with parents-
in-law
B SE B SE B SE B SE B SE
Men
Demographics
  Age −0.04 0.03 −0.01 0.02 0.04* 0.02 (Ref.)
  Education 0.57* 0.26 −0.48* 0.19 0.19 0.21 (Ref.)
  Household incomea 0.05 0.34 0.32 0.34 0.23 0.33 (Ref.)
  Own employedb −1.57 1.01 0.09 1.02 −1.21 0.99 (Ref.)
  Spouse employedb 0.26 0.29 −0.09 0.26 0.31 0.26 (Ref.)
  Number of children 0.26 0.21 −0.20 0.19 −0.06 0.19 (Ref.)
  Number of siblings 0.09 0.08 0.02 0.08 0.04 0.08 (Ref.)
Geographic distance
  From parents 0.06 0.10 0.33*** 0.10 0.24* 0.10 (Ref.)
  From parents-in-law −0.48*** 0.13 −0.31* 0.12 −0.41*** 0.12 (Ref.)
Marital quality
  Spousal support 1.18*** 0.35 −0.75* 0.31 0.82* 0.32 (Ref.)
  Spousal strain 0.42 0.33 0.09 0.28 −0.04 0.30 (Ref.)
Women
Demographics
  Age 0.02 0.03 0.05 0.03 0.01 0.02 (Ref.)
  Education 0.01 0.27 −0.38 0.25 −0.13 0.23 (Ref.)
  Household incomea 0.17 0.44 0.29 0.46 0.11 0.40 (Ref.)
  Own employedb 0.28 0.77 −0.24 0.61 0.40 0.64 (Ref.)
  Spouse employedb −0.17 0.78 0.49 0.62 0.21 0.65 (Ref.)
  Number of children 0.14 0.21 −0.11 0.20 0.28 0.18 (Ref.)
  Number of siblings −0.10 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.05 0.07 (Ref.)
Geographic distance
  From parents 0.14 0.14 0.29* 0.13 0.28* 0.12 (Ref.)
  From parents-in-law −0.23* 0.11 −0.02 0.11 −0.20* 0.09 (Ref.)
Marital quality
  Spousal support −0.10 0.35 −0.29 0.31 0.40 0.29 (Ref.)
  Spousal strain −0.93** 0.35 −0.55 0.30 −0.42 0.28 (Ref.)

Note. For men, Class 4 was used as a reference class, and analyses did not include Class 5; for women, Class 5 was used as a reference class, and analyses did not include Class 4. Ref. = reference category.

a

Log-transformed.

b

Coded 1 for employed and 0 for not employed.

*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.