Table 2a.
Average Marginal Effects (AME) and Standard Errors (SE) for worry/anxiety by mothers’ family type controlled for other factors (n = 4,997).
| Variable | Model 1 |
SE | Model 2 |
SE | Model 3 |
SE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AME | AME | AME | ||||
| Family type | ||||||
| Two biological parent family | ref | ref | Ref | |||
| Reconstituted family with joint physical custody | .126** | .040 | .130** | .039 | .123** | .039 |
| Reconstituted family with main or sole custody | .090*** | .020 | .065** | .019 | .062** | .019 |
| Single mother with joint physical custody | .158*** | .026 | .110*** | .027 | .108*** | .026 |
| Single mother with main or sole custody | .143*** | .017 | .060** | .018 | .058** | .018 |
| Age (years) | .000 | .001 | .003** | .001 | .003** | .001 |
| Foreign background (vs Swedish) | .082*** | .014 | .042** | .014 | .035* | .015 |
| Children <6 years (vs only older children) | -.017 | .016 | .003 | .016 | .001 | .016 |
| Number of children | ||||||
| 1 | Ref | Ref | Ref | |||
| 2 | -.014 | .013 | -.006 | .012 | -.006 | .012 |
| 3 or more | -.015 | .018 | -.028 | .017 | -.026 | .017 |
| Highest education | ||||||
| University level | (ref) | (ref) | ||||
| Senior high school level | .030* | .012 | .028* | .012 | ||
| Primary level | .021 | .024 | .014 | .024 | ||
| Not currently working | .098*** | .015 | .092*** | .015 | ||
| Lack of cash margin | .125*** | .014 | .115*** | .014 | ||
| Lack of close friend (to talk to about anything) | .088*** | .018 | ||||
| Experienced violence or threat | .099*** | .019 | ||||
| Adjusted R2(LPM) | .030 | .063 | .072 | |||
All models are adjusted for survey year.
***p ≤ 0.001; **p ≤ 0.01; *p ≤ 0.05.