Table 3.
Race and education effects on relationship quality over time
| Spouse/Partner Relationship Quality |
Child Relationship Quality |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | |||||
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | |
| b (SE) | b (SE) | b (SE) | b (SE) | b (SE) | b (SE) | b (SE) | b (SE) | |
| 4.63*** (0.17) | 4.85*** (0.16) | 2.21*** (0.35) | 2.00*** (0.32) | 4.33*** (0.12) | 4.33*** (0.11) | 3.12*** (0.24) | 3.18*** (0.22) | |
| Age (W1, centered at 40) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) | −0.01 (0.01) | −0.01 (0.01) | 0.01** (0.00) | 0.01** (0.00) | −0.04*** (0.01) | −0.04*** (0.01) |
| Years of education (W1, centered at 12) | 0.02 (0.01) | 0.03 (0.02) | −0.10*** (0.03) | −0.11** (0.03) | −0.01 (0.01) | −0.03 (0.02) | −0.001 | −0.01 (0.03) |
| White | 0.26* (0.12) | 0.01 (0.09) | −0.13 (0.24) | 0.13 (0.18) | −0.12 (0.09) | −0.08 (0.08) | 0.28 (0.19) | 0.11 (0.14) |
| Female | −0.22*** (0.06) | −0.22*** (0.06) | 0.34** (0.13) | 0.34** (0.13) | 0.18** (0.06) | 0.18** (0.06) | −0.08 (0.12) | −0.08 (0.12) |
| Married or lives with partner | −0.13 (0.12) | −0.13 (0.12) | 0.42 (0.25) | 0.42 (0.25) | 0.15** (0.05) | 0.14** (0.05) | −0.35** (0.11) | −0.32** (0.11) |
| Working | 0.00 (0.05) | −0.01 (0.05) | 0.12 (0.10) | 0.13 (0.10) | −0.02 (0.04) | −0.01 (0.04) | −0.08 (0.10) | −0.10 (0.10) |
| Survey year | 0.02** (0.01) | 0.00 (0.00) | −0.02 (0.01) | 0.00 (0.01) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) | −0.02 (0.01) | −0.02*** (0.01) |
| Survey year * White | −0.02** (0.01) | 0.02 (0.01) | 0.00 (0.00) | −0.01 (0.01) | ||||
| Survey year * Education | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.00 (0.00) | −0.003* (0.00) | ||||
| SD (Intercept) | 0.42 | 0.44 | 0.86 | 0.87 | 0.45 | 0.45 | 0.84 | 0.84 |
| SD (Survey year) | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| N-Level 1 | 555 | 555 | 555 | 555 | 709 | 709 | 708 | 708 |
| N-Level 2 | 228 | 228 | 228 | 228 | 257 | 257 | 257 | 257 |
| AIC | 828 | 838 | 1,634 | 1,636 | 980 | 977 | 2,150 | 2,147 |
| LRT Chi-squared (M0, M1)a | 9.99** (12, 13) | 0.37 (12, 13) | 2.82 (12, 13) | 0.6 (12, 13) | 0.54 (12, 13) | 2.85 (12, 13) | 1.51 (12, 13) | 3.95* (12, 13) |
Notes:
*
p<0.05;
**
p<0.01;
***
p<0.001;
a
Likelihood ratio test chi-squared statistics calculated by comparing the models to models without an interaction term.