Table 3.

Mother’s Life Problems and Participant Depressive Symptoms

	B	SE	β
Parameter
Participant age	.007	.009	.053
Participant gender (1 = male)	−.150	.075	−.110*
Participant educationa	−.050	.034	−.084
Participant minority status	.000	.086	.000
Participant self-reported physical healthb	−.194	.036	−.313***
Participant children’s problems	.047	.041	.061
Mother age	.006	.007	.064
Siblings living near mother	−.013	.017	−.042
Mother ADL status	.171	.080	.126*
Mother problems	.093	.031	.171**
Mother support received	.083	.035	.177**
Mother support provided	−.084	.034	−.187**
Mother marital status	−.020	.029	−.038
Mother–child relational importancec	.046	.041	.063
Interactions
Participant self-reported physical health × mother’s life problems	−.079	.027	−.161***
Mother support provided × mother’s life problems	.037	.018	.107*

Notes. N = 308, R ² = .282. Covariates were mean centered. ADL = activities of daily living.

^a1 = no high school; 2 = high school graduate; 3 = some college; 4 = college graduate; 5 = postgraduate.

^b1 = poor; 2 = fair; 3 = good; 4 = very good; 5 = excellent.

^c1 = less important than that; 2 = among the 20 most important people; 3 = among the 10 most important people; 4 = among the six most important people; 5 = among the three most important people; 6 = the most important person in my life.

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