Table 6. Results of MLM of support equity on depression and life purpose (N = 31 couples).
| Predictor: support equity | 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 | 1.02*** | .05 | .93 | 1.12 | 5.52*** | .10 | 5.31 | 5.73 | ||
| Actor support equity | -.35 | .20 | -.76 | .05 | .29 | .13 | .40 | -.70 | .95 | .06 |
| Partner support equity | -.55** | .20 | -.95 | -.15 | .43 | .22 | .40 | -.60 | 1.05 | .10 |
| Infertility duration | .07* | .03 | .001 | .15 | .37 | -.20* | .07 | -.36 | -.05 | .46 |
| Gender (-1 women, 1 men) | -.33*** | .04 | -.42 | -.25 | .83 | .38*** | .05 | .27 | .49 | .80 |
| Actor support equity × gender | .26 | .20 | -.14 | .63 | .19 | -1.01** | .31 | -1.36 | -.38 | .41 |
| Partner support equity × gender | -.01 | .19 | -.39 | .38 | .04 | -.10 | .31 | -.73 | .52 | .04 |
| [Co-]variances | ||||||||||
| Covariance (women) | .14*** | .04 | .08 | .24 | .40*** | .11 | .23 | .68 | ||
| Covariance (men) | .11*** | .03 | .07 | .19 | .41*** | .11 | .24 | .70 | ||
| Residual variance | .12*** | .02 | .09 | .18 | .54*** | .13 | .23 | .75 | ||
| Goodness-of-fit | ||||||||||
| –2 Restricted log likelihood | 60.48 | 115.68 | ||||||||
| AIC / BIC | 66.48 / 72.51 | 121.68 / 127.70 | ||||||||
| Pseudo R2—full model (women / men) | 22.3% / 6.2% | 14% / 17.5% | ||||||||
| Pseudo R2—equity support only (women/men) | 17.5% / 2.4% | 7% / 0% | ||||||||
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.