Table 3. Results of MLM of support receipt on depression and life purpose (N = 31 couples).
| Predictor: received support | Adjustment | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depressive symptoms | Life purpose | |||||||||
| B | SE | 95% Cl | Effect size r | B | SE | 95% Cl | Effect size r | |||
| lower | upper | lower | upper | |||||||
| Fixed effects | ||||||||||
| Intercept | .99*** | .03 | .92 | 1.05 | 5.52*** | .09 | 5.33 | 5.72 | ||
| Actor received support | -.30** | .10 | -.50 | -.11 | .40 | .80** | .21 | .37 | 1.22 | .53 |
| Partner received support | -.22* | .10 | -.42 | -.02 | .30 | .33 | .21 | -.10 | .76 | .25 |
| Infertility duration | .10** | .03 | .04 | .15 | .57 | .01 | .07 | -.15 | .16 | .02 |
| Gender (-1 women, 1 men) | -.33*** | .04 | -.43 | -.24 | .82 | .36*** | .05 | .25 | .47 | .78 |
| Actor received support × gender | .37** | .11 | .15 | .58 | .42 | -.03 | .23 | -.49 | .44 | .02 |
| Partner received support × gender | -.28* | .11 | -.50 | -.07 | .34 | -.37 | .23 | -.84 | .10 | .25 |
| [Co-]variances | ||||||||||
| Covariance (women) | .08** | .02 | .05 | .15 | .30*** | .08 | .18 | .52 | ||
| Covariance (men) | .10*** | .03 | .06 | .18 | .40*** | .11 | .23 | .70 | ||
| Residual variance | .09*** | .02 | .06 | .14 | .51*** | .14 | .19 | .74 | ||
| Goodness-of-fit | ||||||||||
| –2 Restricted log likelihood | 44.97 | 111.86 | ||||||||
| AIC / BIC | 50.97 / 56.99 | 117.86 / 123.89 | ||||||||
| Pseudo R2—full model (women / men) | 61.3% / 27.4% | 35.1% / 21.2% | ||||||||
| Pseudo R2—received support only (women/men) | 34.0% / 27.4% | 35.1% / 19.5% | ||||||||
AIC Akaike Information Criterion; BIC Bayesian Information Criterion. Null model for depression: AIC = 96.14; BIC = 104.64; for life purpose: AIC = 152.50; BIC = 161.01.
*p < .05.
**p < .01.
***p < .001.