Table 3.

Effects of Marital Quality on Cognition from Latent Growth Curve Models, HRS 2006-2016, Total Sample (N=7,901)

	A. Positive Marital Quality				B. Negative Marital Quality
	Latent Intercept		Latent Slope		Latent Intercept		Latent Slope
	Estimate	SE	Estimate	SE	Estimate	SE	Estimate	SE
Marital quality intercept	0.216**	0.066	−0.010	0.011	−0.271***	0.069	0.009	0.011
Marital quality slope			0.724	0.494			−1.054	0.842
Baseline Covariates
Age (centered at mean)	−0.144***	0.005	−0.011***	0.001	−0.144***	0.005	−0.011***	0.001
Gender (ref: male)
Female	0.992***	0.079	−0.033**	0.012	0.970***	0.077	−0.036**	0.012
Race-ethnicity (ref: non-Hispanic White)
non-Hispanic Black	−2.318***	0.138	0.002	0.021	−2.299***	0.138	0.003	0.021
Hispanic	−1.221***	0.168	0.012	0.026	−1.201***	0.169	0.018	0.026
Other	−1.960***	0.181	−0.011	0.027	−1.920***	0.182	−0.023	0.031
Education (ref: less than high school)
High school	2.196***	0.118	0.007	0.019	2.195***	0.118	0.016	0.020
Some college	3.493***	0.119	−0.009	0.019	3.494***	0.118	−0.004	0.019
College above	4.708***	0.143	0.018	0.022	4.718***	0.142	0.021	0.022
Marital Status (ref: married)
Cohabiting	−0.633**	0.213	0.018	0.034	−0.675**	0.213	0.046	0.042
Order of Marriage (ref: 0 marriage)
1st marriage	0.217	0.584	−0.039	0.089	0.158	0.584	−0.010	0.090
2nd marriage	0.295	0.585	−0.058	0.090	0.220	0.585	−0.021	0.090
3rd and higher-order	0.234	0.595	−0.075	0.090	0.168	0.595	−0.046	0.092
Having at least one child	0.120	0.140	−0.004	0.021	0.128	0.140	−0.004	0.022
Having at least one living sibling	0.189	0.118	0.027	0.019	0.201	0.118	0.024	0.019
MQ survey starting year (ref: 2006)
2008	−0.010	0.075	−0.001	0.011	−0.023	0.075	0.009	0.014
Means of growth parameters	12.392***	0.602	−0.141	0.094	12.458***	0.603	−0.183*	0.093
Variances in growth parameters	6.159***	0.192	0.012**	0.005	6.148***	0.192	0.012*	0.005
Model fit index	CFI=0.992	TLI=0.985	RMSEA=0.018		CFI=0.991	TLI=0.984	RMSEA=0.019

^***p<0.001

^**p<0.01

^*p<0.05