Table 4.

Effects of Family Structure Transitions on Externalizing Behavior

	REM w/o TV	REM w/TV	FEM	MSM
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
A. Number of Family Structure Transitions
0 (ref.)
1	.057** (.024)	.053** (.024)	.055** (.027)	.051* (.027)
2+	.063* (.035)	.061* (.035)	.025 (.039)	.046 (.039)
B. Type of Family Structure Transitions
Stable coresidential union (ref.)
Move out	.065* (.034)	.062* (.034)	.029 (.041)	.051 (.035)
Multiple transitions from coresidential union	.154*** (.050)	.149*** (.050)	.111* (.057)	.115* (.060)
Stable single motherhood (ref.)
Move in	.051 (.034)	.051 (.035)	.080** (.040)	.050 (.040)
Multiple transitions from single motherhood	−.021 (.048)	−.020 (.048)	−.050 (.053)	−.038 (.051)

Note: N = 7,946 person-years. Robust standard errors are in parentheses. All models include survey year, its square term, child’s age, and its square term. REM and MSM also control for observed time-constant covariates.

TV = time-varying covariates.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001 (one-tailed tests).