Table 2.
Trajectories in Midlife and Old Ages Among Parents of an Adult Child With Developmental Disabilities and Parents of Adults Without Disabilities (Polled Results From Multiple Imputed Data)
| Depressive Symptoms |
Psychological Well-being |
Self-rated Health |
Physical Symptoms |
Body Mass Index |
Friend/Relative Visits |
Having a Confidant |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed Part | |||||||
| Intercept | 10.79*** (0.41) | 77.17*** (0.75) | 3.15***(0.04) | 6.01*** (0.20) | 32.42*** (0.32) | 2.69*** (0.16) | 1.30***(0.03) |
| Developmental | 1.34** (0.51) | −1.92* (0.92) | −0.09*(0.04) | 1.10*** (0.23) | 0.66 (0.46) | −0.65*** (0.18) | −0.02(0.05) |
| Disabilities (DD) | |||||||
| Linear slope (age) | 0.13*** (0.01) | −0.12*** (0.01) | −0.01*** (0.00) | 0.05*** (0.00) | 0.11*** (0.00) | −0.00 (0.00) | −0.01*** (0.00) |
| Quadratic slope (age2) | 0.01*** (0.00) | ||||||
| Female | 1.15*** (0.13) | 1.36*** (0.25) | 0.08*** (0.01) | 0.52*** (0.06) | −1.51*** (0.10) | 0.88*** (0.05) | 0.25*** (0.01) |
| Education | −0.27*** (0.03) | 0.94*** (0.05) | 0.05*** (0.00) | −0.07*** (0.01) | −0.21*** (0.02) | 0.03** (0.01) | 0.01* (0.00) |
| Have a deceased child | 0.56** (0.22) | −0.80* (0.35) | −0.02 (0.02) | −0.11 (0.10) | 0.18 (0.14) | −0.10 (0.09) | 0.02 (0.02) |
| DD x age | 0.03 (0.03) | —0.08† (0.04) | −0.00 (0.00) | 0.04* (0.01) | −0.00 (0.02) | −0.01 (0.01) | 0.00 (0.00) |
| Random Part | |||||||
| Level 1 residual | 4.69 (0.07) | 6.41 (0.08) | 0.44 (0.00) | 2.08 (0.02) | 1.99 (0.05) | 2.40 (0.03) | 0.46 (0.00) |
| Level 2 age | 0.21 (0.01) | 0.35 (0.01) | 0.02 (0.00) | 0.11 (0.00) | 0.13 (0.00) | 0.06 (0.01) | 0.01 (0.00) |
| Level 2 intercept | 5.62 (0.11) | 10.65 (0.13) | 0.55 (0.01) | 2.94 (0.04) | 5.37 (0.06) | 1.96 (0.06) | 0.38 (0.00) |
†
p ≤ .10
*
p ≤ .05
**
p ≤ .01
***
p ≤ .001.