Table 2.

Linear regression analyses of relationship status predicting depressive symptoms^a at different ages among women and men.

	Age 22 years		Age 32 years			Age 42 years		Age 52 years
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1		Model 2	Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
Relationship status	B (SE) p	B (SE) p	B (SE) p		B (SE) p	B (SE) p	B (SE) p	B (SE) p	B (SE) p
Women	n = 878	n = 876	n = 789		n = 780	n = 720	n = 713	n = 636	n = 619
Married (ref)
Cohabiting	0.09 (0.10) 0.373	0.12 (0.11) 0.284	0.05 (0.07) 0.511		0.06 (0.08) 0.395	0.17 (0.08) 0.047	0.14 (0.09) 0.110	0.05 (0.10) 0.615	0.00 (0.10) 0.986
Dating	0.05 (0.10) 0.635	0.04 (0.11) 0.736	0.01 (0.12) 0.943		-0.02 (0.13) 0.871	0.28 (0.11) 0.010	0.25 (0.13) 0.047	0.07 (0.13) 0.594	0.01 (0.14) 0.971
Single	0.28 (0.10) 0.005	0.28 (0.12) 0.015	0.17 (0.09) 0.071		0.17 (0.11) 0.143	0.35 (0.11) 0.001	0.32 (0.12) 0.007	0.36 (0.12) 0.002	0.34 (0.13) 0.009
Divorced/widowedb			0.36 (0.17) 0.033		0.18 (0.19) 0.348	0.24 (0.12) 0.047	0.25 (0.13) 0.054	0.16 (0.12) 0.206	0.13 (0.13) 0.310
R Square	0.094	0.108	0.059		0.064	0.087	0.090	0.077	0.083
Men	n = 746	n = 743	n = 651		n = 639	n = 585	n = 577	n = 500		n = 490
Married (ref)
Cohabiting	0.14 (0.16) 0.357	0.22 (0.18) 0.207	0.23 (0.07) 0.002	0.25 (0.08) 0.002		0.14 (0.08) 0.088	0.08 (0.09) 0.391	0.30 (0.10) 0.004	0.27 (0.11) 0.013
Dating	0.10 (0.15) 0.524	0.15 (0.18) 0.395	0.36 (0.11) 0.001	0.42 (0.13) 0.001		0.27 (0.14) 0.059	0.09 (0.17) 0.600	0.35 (0.18) 0.051	0.24 (0.19) 0.202
Single	0.34 (0.15) 0.022	0.39 (0.18) 0.027	0.52 (0.08) <0.001	0.60 (0.11) <0.001		0.41 (0.11) <0.001	0.28 (0.13) 0.032	0.38 (0.12) 0.001	0.24 (0.14) 0.093
Divorced/widowedb			0.58 (0.21) 0.005	0.62 (0.22) 0.004		0.60 (0.18) 0.001	0.45 (0.19) 0.020	0.55 (0.16) 0.001	0.51 (0.17) 0.002
R Square	0.119	0.131	0.097	0.106		0.079	0.099	0.080	0.085

Model 1: Adjusting for parental divorce, parental SES and depressive symptoms at age 16.

Model 2: Model 1 + education, having children, duration of the current relationship status and dissolution of a relationship during the past 12 months.

^aNatural log transformed depressive symptoms variables were used in the analysis.

^bDue to the small number of cases (<5), divorced/widowed were excluded from the analyses at age 22.