Table 3.

Linear regression analyses of relationship status predicting self-esteem 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 = 876	n = 874	n = 787	n = 779	n = 721	n = 714	n = 634	n = 618
Married (ref)
Cohabiting	0.00 (0.08) 0.995	-0.00 (0.09) 0.974	-0.09 (0.06) 0.121	-0.10 (0.06) 0.115	0.01 (0.07) 0.846	0.01 (0.08) 0.948	-0.01 (0.09) 0.940	0.00 (0.09) 0.983
Dating	-0.00 (0.08) 0.969	0.01 (0.09) 0.935	-0.09 (0.10) 0.382	-0.10 (0.11) 0.342	-0.05 (0.10) 0.611	-0.08 (0.11) 0.464	-0.03 (0.12) 0.814	-0.08 (0.13) 0.518
Single	-0.11 (0.08) 0.189	-0.11 (0.09) 0.244	-0.27 (0.08) 0.001	-0.28 (0.10) 0.004	-0.15 (0.09) 0.112	-0.19 (0.10) 0.073	-0.11 (0.10) 0.276	-0.15 (0.12) 0.185
Divorced/widoweda			-0.33 (0.15) 0.026	-0.22 (0.16) 0.188	-0.14 (0.11) 0.201	-0.17 (0.11) 0.143	-0.17 (0.11) 0.130	-0.19 (0.12) 0.108
R Square	0.254	0.258	0.124	0.135	0.124	0.130	0.111	0.120
Men	n = 747	n = 744	n = 644	n = 633	n = 581	n = 573	n = 497	n = 486
Married (ref)
Cohabiting	0.00 (0.13) 0.983	-0.05 (0.15) 0.741	-0.16 (0.06) 0.011	-0.16 (0.07) 0.024	-0.06 (0.07) 0.350	-0.02 (0.07) 0.790	-0.17 (0.09) 0.055	-0.17 (0.09) 0.066
Dating	0.01 (0.13) 0.923	-0.04 (0.16) 0.803	-0.21 (0.10) 0.030	-0.24 (0.11) 0.032	-0.12 (0.12) 0.295	-0.02 (0.14) 0.876	-0.11 (0.15) 0.478	-0.09 (0.16) 0.590
Single	-0.22 (0.13) 0.075	-0.28 (0.15) 0.073	-0.52 (0.07) <0.001	-0.56 (0.09) <0.001	-0.45 (0.09) <0.001	-0.37 (0.11) <0.001	-0.43 (0.10) <0.001	-0.35 (0.12) 0.003
Divorced/widoweda			-0.30 (0.18) 0.088	-0.31 (0.18) 0.092	-0.41 (0.15) 0.006	-0.38 (0.16) 0.015	-0.47 (0.14) 0.001	-0.49 (0.14) 0.001
R Square	0.199	0.203	0.155	0.164	0.125	0.132	0.137	0.124

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.

^aDue to the small number of cases (<5), divorcees were excluded from the analyses at age 22.