Table 3.
Associations Between Own and Partner Parental Support and Marital Satisfaction for Wives and Husbands
| Wives’ marital satisfaction | Husbands’ marital satisfaction | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1: Tangible support | Model 2: Nontangible support | Model 1: Tangible support | Model 2: Nontangible support | |||||
| Estimate | B | SE | B | SE | B | SE | B | SE |
| Step 1 | ||||||||
| Actor depressive symptoms | −.84*** | .11 | — | — | −.53*** | .09 | — | — |
| Partner depressive symptoms | −.02 | .11 | — | — | −.10 | .09 | — | — |
| Pseudo-R2 | .24 | — | .16 | — | ||||
| Step 2 | ||||||||
| Actor parental support | .04 | .06 | .01 | .06 | −.01 | .04 | .02 | .05 |
| Partner parental support | −.02 | .05 | −.01 | .06 | .01 | .05 | .02 | .05 |
| Pseudo-R2 | .23 | .23 | .15 | .15 | ||||
| Step 3 | ||||||||
| Actor support × partner support | .01 | .03 | .08* | .03 | −.01 | .03 | .08** | .03 |
| Pseudo-R2 | .23 | .25 | .15 | .19 | ||||
Notes: Actor = own report; Partner = spouse report. Model 1 = actor and partner tangible support as predictors. Model 2 = actor and partner nontangible support as predictors. Separate models were estimated for tangible support and nontangible support. N = 197 married couples.
*p ≤ .05, **p ≤ .01, ***p ≤ .001.