Table 2.

Partnered Relationship Quality as a Predictor of Mortality

	B	SE	t	OR	p	CI
Age	.075	.012	6.33	1.08	<.0001	1.05–1.10
Female (male coded as 0)	−.503	.186	−2.70	.61	.0069	.42–.87
Education	−.256	.086	−2.96	.77	.0031	.65–.92
White (non-White coded as 0)	.253	.234	1.08	1.29	.2796	.82–2.06
Relationship type (married=reference group)
Living as married	−.530	.445	−1.19	.70	.2331	.25–3.84
Intimate relationship	.171	.337	.51	1.19	.6119	.59–2.22
BMI	−.031	.016	−1.91	.97	.057	.94–1.00
# Medications	.051	.022	2.38	1.05	.0175	1.01–1.10
Self-rated health	−.367	.086	−4.26	.69	<.0001	.59–.82
# Close family members or relatives	−.069	.091	−0.76	.93	.4464	.78–1.1
# Close friends	−.068	.076	−0.89	.93	.3742	.80–1.1
Positive RQ – Spouse/partner	.105	.104	1.01	1.11	.3122	.91–1.37
Negative RQ – Spouse/partner	.181	.074	2.44	1.20	.0146	1.03–1.38

OR=odds ratio; RQ=relationship quality; CI=95% confidence interval

Note: alive=0, deceased=1; for continuous variables, higher scores indicate being older, more educated, higher BMI, more medication use, better self-reported health, larger network of family members and friends, higher positive relationship quality, and higher negative relationship quality.

Note: |r| > .05 were significant at the .05 level.