Table 4.
Couple-level Growth Curve Models Predicting Influence of One Spouse’s Number of Chronic Conditions on Other Spouse’s CES-D, Health and Retirement Study, N = 6,634 Couples.
| Variable | Only Wife with Chronic Condition (n = 791) |
Only Husband with Chronic Condition (n = 951) |
Wife and Husband with Chronic Condition (n = 4,892) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model A |
Model B |
Model C |
Model D |
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| Husband’s CES-D (1) | Husband’s CES-D (S) | Wife’s CES-D (1) | Wife’s CES-D (S) | Husband’s CES-D (1) | Husband’s CES-D (S) | Wife’s CES-D (1) | Wife’s CES-D (S) | |
| Husband’s number of conditions (I) | — | — | .04 (.07) |
−.01 (.02) |
— | — | .11** (.04) |
−.03*** (.01) |
| Husband’s number of conditions (S) | — | — | — | .03 (.07) |
— | — | — | (.04) |
| Wife’s number of conditions (I) | .01 (.08) |
−.01 (.01) |
— | — | .03 (.04) |
−.02***
(.00) |
— | — |
| Wife’s number of conditions (S) | — | .17* (.07) |
— | — | .08* (.04) |
— | — | |
| Residual variances | ||||||||
| I, CES-D | .55*** (.03) | 70*** (.08) | 1.19*** (.05) | 1.67*** (.07) | ||||
| S, CES-D | .03*** (.00) | .01 (.01) | .02*** (.00) | .03*** (.01) | ||||
| I, number of Conditions | .55*** (.03) | .58*** (.03) | .74*** (.01) | .88*** (.02) | ||||
| S, number of Conditions | .01** (.01) | .03*** (.02) | .03*** (.00) | .04*** (.00) | ||||
| Model fit | ||||||||
| AIC | 15058.97 | 19019.41 | 87079.81 | 90408.01 | ||||
| BIC | 15383.39 | 19349.99 | 87535.45 | 90855.04 | ||||
Note: Celis contain standard errors or variance in parentheses. All models adjust for husband’s and wife’s age at interview, marital duration, educational attainment, race-ethnicity, number of living children, log of household income, number of disabilities, and number of drugs/treatments. CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale; I= intercept; S= slope; AIC = Akaike information criterion; BIC = Bayesian information criterion.
*
p < .05
**
p < .01
***
p <.001.