Table 2.
Husbands’ and Wives’ Impulsivity and Husbands’ Marital Trajectories
| Intercept |
Linear Slope |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate (SE) | t ratio | Effect size r | Estimate (SE) | t ratio | Effect size r | |
| Marital satisfaction | ||||||
| Main effect | 94.24 (0.76) | — | — | −0.72 (0.16) | −4.45** | 0.32 |
| Husband impulsivity | −0.19 (0.10) | −1.96* | 0.15 | 0.00 (0.02) | 0.10 | 0.01 |
| Wife impulsivity | −0.01 (0.13) | −0.05 | 0.00 | −0.03 (0.04) | −0.78 | 0.06 |
| Marital problems | ||||||
| Main effect | 49.95 (1.55) | — | — | 0.50 (0.27) | 1.86 | 0.14 |
| Husband impulsivity | 0.49 (0.22) | 2.28* | 0.17 | 0.03 (0.04) | 0.79 | 0.06 |
| Wife impulsivity | 0.31 (0.28) | 1.11 | 0.09 | −0.03 (0.06) | −0.58 | 0.04 |
| Relationship commitment | ||||||
| Main effect | 74.33 (0.54) | — | — | −0.19 (0.10) | −1.87 | 0.14 |
| Husband impulsivity | −0.12 (0.07) | −1.71 | 0.13 | 0.00 (0.02) | −0.26 | 0.02 |
| Wife impulsivity | −0.14 (0.10) | −1.41 | 0.11 | −0.01 (0.02) | −0.48 | 0.04 |
| Verbal aggression | ||||||
| Main effect | 3.51 (0.21) | — | — | −0.10 (0.07) | −1.31 | 0.10 |
| Husband impulsivity | 0.03 (0.03) | 0.90 | 0.07 | 0.01 (0.01) | 0.77 | 0.06 |
| Wife impulsivity | 0.02 (0.04) | 0.61 | 0.05 | 0.01 (0.01) | 0.46 | 0.04 |
Notes. Intercepts were significant p < .01 because the lowest possible score was greater than zero, so these statistics are not reported.
Husbands’ and wives’ impulsivity scores were grand-mean centered within sex. N = 172 couples. df = 169 for all analyses. Effect size r = sqrt [t2/(t2 + df)].
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.