Table 4.

Daily Emotional Support Predicting Midlife Adults’ Diurnal Cortisol Patterns.

	CAR		DEC		AUC
Variable	B	SE	B	SE	B	SE
Fixed effects
Intercept	0.80	0.86	−0.05	0.06	48.47***	8.60
Same-day support provision
Emotional support to childrena	0.03	0.12	−0.00	0.01	0.16	0.87
Emotional support to parenta	−0.03	0.14	0.00	0.01	−0.05	0.98
Prior-day support provision
Emotional support to childrena	0.13	0.12	−0.00	0.01	0.35	0.83
Emotional support to parenta	0.14	0.14	−0.00	0.01	1.13	1.00
Control variables
Genderb	−0.20	0.11	0.01	0.01	2.13	1.15
Age	0.03	0.01	−0.00	0.00	0.16	0.13
Years of education	0.02	0.02	−0.00	0.00	−0.63*	0.30
Employment statusc	−0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.07	0.04
Neuroticismd	0.06	0.08	−0.01	0.01	−1.73*	0.84
Health statuse	−0.08	0.06	−0.00	0.00	−1.15	0.63
Wake time	0.20***	0.37
Weekend dayf	0.05	0.14	0.00	0.01	−1.02	1.01
Sleep quality night beforeg	−0.01	0.06	−0.00	0.00	0.37	0.47
Smoked this dayh	0.08	0.17	0.01*	0.01	2.20	1.72
Medication dayi	−0.11	0.17	−0.00	0.01	0.55	1.70
Random effects
Intercept VAR	0.01	0.06	0.00***	0.00	28.63***	5.48
Residual VAR	1.08***	0.10	0.00***	0.00	34.08***	3.31
−2 log likelihood	1,106.2		−1,090.2		2,436.8

Note. Participants N = 151; N = 558 days; CAR = cortisol awakening response; DEC = daily decline; AUC = area under the curve; VAR = variance.

^aSupport was coded 0 = no support given, 1 = support given.

^bGender was coded 0 = female, 1 = male.

^cEmployment status was coded 0 = not working full-time, 1 = employed full-time.

^dNeuroticism was calculated averaging ratings of four items (e.g., moody, worrying, nervous, calm) from 1 = not at all to 5 = a great deal.

^eHealth status was rated from 1 = poor to 5 = excellent.

^fWeekend day was coded 0 = weekday, 1 = weekend day.

^gSleep quality night before was rated from 1 = poor to 5 = excellent.

^hSmoked this day was coded 0 = no, 1 = yes.

ⁱMedication day was coded 0 = no, 1 = yes.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.

^***p < .001.