Table 3.
Actor and partner effects of marital quality type on loneliness.
| Wife’s Loneliness | Husband’s Loneliness | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wife’s Marital Quality Type | Coeff. | S.E. | Coeff. | S.E. |
| Supportive (ref) | ||||
| Ambivalent | 0.18 | 0.12 | –0.02 | 0.12 |
| Indifferent | 0.71*** | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.15 |
| Aversive | 1.14*** | 0.14 | 0.61*** | 0.14 |
| Husband’s Marital Quality Type | ||||
| Supportive (ref) | ||||
| Ambivalent | 0.17 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 0.11 |
| Indifferent | 0.20 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.22 |
| Aversive | 0.60*** | 0.17 | 0.82*** | 0.15 |
Note:
p < .05,
p < .01,
p < .001. Boldface indicates actor effects and regular type indicates partner effects. All the coefficients are adjusted for husband’s and wife’s respective age, number of ADL, network size, education, and race/ethnicity, and husband’s report of household income.