Table 2.
Relationships Between Baseline Marital Quality and Cognitive Limitations From Linear Growth Curve Model
| Intercept | Slope | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate | SE | Estimate | SE | |
| Positive marital experiences | .010 | .007 | .000 | .001 |
| Negative marital experiences | .007 | .010 | −.003* | .001 |
| Age (centered at 68) | −.008* | .004 | .002*** | .001 |
| Gender (1 = female) | .069 | .036 | −.002 | .005 |
| Race (1 = African American) | .127*** | .035 | .006 | .005 |
| Educationa | ||||
| Less than high school | .188*** | .033 | .003 | .004 |
| Some college | −.019 | .040 | .002 | .005 |
| College and above | −.019 | .047 | −.004 | .005 |
| Remarriage status (1 = remarried) | −.024 | .029 | .005 | .004 |
| Employment (1 = employed) | −.007 | .032 | .000 | .004 |
| Household income | −.012 | .006 | .001 | .001 |
| Widowed after Wave 1 | .042 | .031 | −.002 | .004 |
| Divorced/separated after Wave 1 | −.118 | .092 | .026* | .010 |
| Number of waves | −.036* | .015 | −.003 | .003 |
| Mortality hazard | 1.721* | .835 | −.223 | .181 |
| Means of growth parameters | .159 | .114 | .039* | .019 |
| Variances in growth parameters | .046*** | .008 | .000 | .000 |
| Pseudo-R square | .368 | .869 | ||
| Model fit index | CFI=.961 | RMSEA=.025 | ||
Notes. CFI = comparative fit index; RMSEA = root mean square error of approximation.
aThe reference group is respondents with high school education.
*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.