Table 2.

Intercorrelations and descriptive statistics for study variables.

		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	CESD T2	1.00
2	CESD T3	.458**	1.00
3	CESD T4	.360**	.659**	1.00
4	DAS T2	−.328**	−.244**	−.231**	1.00
5	DAS T3	−.160*	−.382**	−.377**	.471**	1.00
6	DAS T4	−.220**	−.169*	−.393**	.526**	.592**	1.00
7	Family income	−.087	−.122	−.144*	.076	.000	−.045	1.00
8	Partner status	−.159*	−.024	−.078	.156*	.092	.096	.271**	1.00
Descriptive Statistics
Full Sample
Mean		5.45	5.62	5.96	120.18	121.01	121.63	.97
Standard deviation		9.38	11.14	11.42	18.43	18.61	18.01	.53
African Americans
Mean		7.68	5.57	6.3	119.52	126.12	123.93	.94
Standard deviation		12.51	12.7	11.47	19.77	14.04	14.78	.72
Hispanics
Mean (SD)		4.5	5.63	5.82	120.45	119.74	121.02	.99
Standard deviation		7.5	10.55	11.45	17.9	19.42	18.78	.42
t		2.00*	−.04	.27	−.35	1.83+	.86	−.43

Note. CESD = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale; DAS = Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Partner status = 1 if married at Time 1. Correlations for partner status are Spearman Rank coefficients.

⁺p < .10;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01.