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Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2016 Mar 22;78(3):680–694. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12301

Table 3.

Stability and Cross-Lagged Effects for Positivity and Marital Satisfaction

	Stability Effects			Cross-Lagged Effects
	Satisfaction (β)	Positivity (β)	Wald test	Satisfaction to positivity (β)	Positivity to satisfaction (β)	Wald test
Husbands’ positivity and husbands’ satisfaction
Wave 1–2	0.60^**	0.43^**	42.09^**	0.10^*	0.09^*	4.05^*
Wave 2–3	0.68^**	0.42^**	18.14^**	0.11^*	0.02	0.25
Wave 3–4	0.69^**	0.46^**	15.49^**	0.05	0.00	0.00
Husbands’ positivity and wives’ satisfaction
Wave 1–2	0.61^**	0.42^**	35.10^**	0.15^**	0.05	0.99
Wave 2–3	0.69^**	0.40^**	33.45^**	0.18^**	0.08^*	3.97^*
Wave 3–4	0.65^**	0.44^**	5.44^*	0.10⁺	0.02	0.08
Wives’ positivity and wives’ satisfaction
Wave 1–2	0.62^**	0.37^**	38.43^**	0.14^*	0.00	0.02
Wave 2–3	0.69^**	0.40^**	35.98^**	0.14^*	0.07⁺	2.61
Wave 3–4	0.66^**	0.47^**	5.44^*	0.09⁺	−0.02	0.33
Wives’ positivity and husbands’ satisfaction
Wave 1–2	0.60^**	0.38^**	43.73^**	0.09⁺	0.06	1.92
Wave 2–3	0.68^**	0.42^**	21.92^**	0.08	0.01	0.04
Wave 3–4	0.69^**	0.48^**	15.95^**	0.10⁺	0.00	0.00

Note. Wald tests compare the relative strength of the paths (all df = 1). All results are standardized coefficients.

⁺

p < .10;

p < .05;

^**

p < .01.