Table 4.

Multilevel Model for Depressive Symptom Trajectories by Parents’ Education

	Parents’ education
	<HS		HS/GED		Some college		College +
	b		b		b		b
Intercept	2.63	***	2.03	***	2.07	***	1.32	***
Age	−0.01	***	−0.01	***	−0.01		−0.01	**
Children’s educationa
Some with college	−0.12	*	−0.18	***	−0.03		−0.07
All with college	−0.32	**	−0.20	***	−0.11		−0.10	*
Age X children’s education
Age X some with college	0.00		0.01	*	0.00		0.01	**
Age X all with college	0.03	**	0.02	***	0.02		0.02	***
N (person−years)	23,393		57,772		4,790		20,562

Note: Models include controls per Table 3, Model 6. Bold indicates significantly (p < .05) different from parents with <HS education. ^aReference category = Less than high school.

Source: HRS, 2000–2012

*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.