Table 4.
Multigroup Path Model Results for Destructive Interparental Conflict and IPV.
| Married | Cohabiting | Churning | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regression Paths | b | SE | b | SE | b | SE |
| Child behavior problems | ||||||
| Child emotional insecurity | .18 | .02*** | .20 | .01*** | .21 | .02*** |
| Mother’s report of destructive conflict | .04 | .02* | .05 | .01*** | .05 | .02** |
| Mother’s report of IPV victimization (Yes) | −.04 | .03 | −.02 | .02 | −.01 | .03 |
| Father’s report of destructive conflict | .01 | .02 | −.01 | .01 | .00 | .02 |
| Father’s report of IPV (Yes) | −.02 | .03 | .01 | .02 | −.01 | .03 |
| Race and ethnicity (reference: Black) | ||||||
| White | .02 | .02 | .02 | .02 | −.01 | .03 |
| Hispanic | .06 | .02* | .07 | .02*** | −.02 | .03 |
| Other | .00 | .03 | .03 | .02 | −.07 | .03* |
| Education level | −.02 | .01 | −.03 | .01** | −.01 | .01 |
| Number of biological children with BSF father | −.01 | .01 | −.01 | .01 | .04 | .02 |
| Mother’s depressive symptoms | .02 | .02 | .06 | .02 | .03 | .02 |
| Father’s depressive symptoms | −.01 | .03 | .02 | .02 | −.01 | .02 |
| Mother’s age | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00† |
| Father’s age | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 |
| Child sex (boy) | .05 | .02** | .02 | .01 | .01 | .02 |
| BSF treatment status (intervention) | .00 | .02 | −.01 | .01 | −.01 | .02 |
| Child emotional insecurity | ||||||
| Mother’s report of destructive conflict | .16 | .04*** | .12 | .03*** | .10 | .04** |
| Mother’s report of IPV victimization (Yes) | .14 | .07† | .12 | .05* | .02 | .06 |
| Father’s report of destructive conflict | .03 | .04 | −.02 | .02 | .06 | .04 |
| Father’s report of IPV (Yes) | .03 | .06 | .05 | .04 | −.10 | .05† |
| Race and ethnicity (reference: Black) | ||||||
| White | .17 | .05 | .07 | .04† | −.02 | .07 |
| Hispanic | .08 | .04 | −.01 | .03 | .05 | .05 |
| Other | .08 | .07 | .03 | .04 | −.01 | .07 |
| Education level | −.01 | .03 | −.03 | .02† | .05 | .03† |
| Number of biological children with BSF father | −.03 | .02 | −.01 | .02 | −.07 | .03* |
| Mother’s depressive symptoms | .06 | .05 | .14 | .03 | .07 | .04 |
| Father’s depressive symptoms | .06 | .07 | .02 | .04 | .01 | .05 |
| Mother age in years | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .00 | .01 |
| Father age in years | .00 | .00 | −.01 | .00* | −.01 | .00 |
| Child sex (boy) | .03 | .04 | −.04 | .03 | .01 | .04 |
| BSF treatment status (intervention) | −.05 | .04 | −.05 | .03† | −.01 | .04 |
| N | 600 | 1,373 | 718 | |||
| R 2 | .20 | .20 | .14 | |||
Note. b is unstandardized coefficients. SE is bootstrapped standard errors. IPV = intimate partner violence.
†
p < .10.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
***
p < .001.