Table 5.

Baseline Demographic and Relationship Characteristics Distinguish Among Husbands’ and Wives’ Trajectory Groups

Communication group	Education							Race/Ethnicity
	Age	Household Income	Relationship Length	Relationship Satisfaction	<HS Degree	HS Degree	Some College	College Degree	White	Black Hispanic		Premarital children	Premarital cohabitation
Husbands
Group 1	27.14 (5.17)	$47,931 ($31,295)3	4.76 (3.0)	32.99 (3.34)3	23%3	26%	41%	10%3	4%3	10%	86%2,3	55%2,3	63%3
Group 2	28.05 (5.85)	$52,062 ($46,053)3	4.97 (3.88)3	33.75 (3.29)3	28%3	28%	29%	15%3	9%3	15%	76%1	41%1,3	60%3
Group 3	28.18 (6.15)	$64,754 ($42,893)1,2	3.94 (2.73)2	34.70 (2.20)12	9%1,2	26%	32%	331,2	21%1,2	9%	71%1	25%2,3	46%1,2
F value	1.017	5.505*	4.057*	9.51***	35.797***					20.609***		22.847***	8.796*
Effect size	.005	.025	.019	.043	.204					.155		.230	.140
Wives
Group 1	24.71 (4.77)2	$40,295 ($26,728)2,3	4.19 (2.68)	32.11 (3.54)3	22%3	34%3	35%	10%2,3	0%2,3	13%	87%3	58%2,3	58%
Group 2	26.72 (5.10)1	$55,586 ($45,724)1,3	4.85 (3.71)	32.91 (3.57)3	17%3	25%	29%	30%1	12%1,3	13%	76%3	39%1,3	59%3
Group 3	26.35 (4.60)	$67,565 ($42,036)1,2	4.23 (3.13)	34.63 (2.05)12	3%1,2	18%1	39%	40%1	21%1,2	8%	70%1,2	22%1,2	45%2
F value	5.182**	9.554***	1.834	14.84***	34.312***					20.881***		26.665***	6.028*
Effect size	.024	.043	.007	.065	.200					.156		.234	.118

Note. N = 431 Couples. Superscripts indicate significant (p < .05) contrasts between groups. Effect size is partial eta squared for ANOVAs (age, household income, relationship length, relationship satisfaction) and Cramer’s V for Chi square analyses (education, race/ethnicity, premarital children, premarital cohabitation).

^***p < .001,

^**p < .01,

^*p < .05