Table 5.

Effects of Family Structure Transitions on Internalizing Behavior

	REM w/o TV	REM w/TV	FEM	MSM
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
A. Number of Family Structure Transitions
0 (ref.)
1	.058** (.025)	.059** (.025)	.061** (.029)	.049* (.027)
2+	.019 (.037)	.019 (.037)	.020 (.042)	.011 (.043)
B. Type of Family Structure Transitions
Stable coresidential union (ref.)
Move out	.070** (.035)	.065* (.035)	.067 (.044)	.052 (.036)
Multiple transitions from coresidential union	.098* (.053)	.093* (.053)	.098 (.061)	.102 (.065)
Stable single motherhood (ref.)
Move in	.049 (.036)	.049 (.037)	.056 (.044)	.038 (.040)
Multiple transitions from single motherhood	−.052 (.051)	−.049 (.051)	−.048 (.058)	−.087* (.052)

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).